Prudence will punish to prevent crime, not to avenge it.

It is not that we have so little time but that we lose so much. ... The life we receive is not short but we make it so; we are not ill provided but use what we have wastefully.

He invites the commission of a crime who does not forbid it, when it is in his power to do so.

Death is a punishment to some, to others a gift and to many a favour.

If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is favourable.

We are as answerable for what we give as for what we receive; nay, the misplacing of a benefit is worse than the not receiving of it; for the one is another person's fault, but the other is mine.

He who boasts of his descent, praises the deed of another.