Money does all things for reward. Some are pious and honest as long as they thrive upon it, but if the devil himself gives better wages, they soon change their party.

It is not how many books thou hast, but how good; careful reading profiteth, while that which is full of variety delighteth.

To want simply what is enough nowadays suggests to people primitiveness and squalor.

What narrow innocence it is for one to be good only according to the law.

Laugh at your problems; everybody else does.

Retirement without literary amusements is death itself, and a living tomb.

Just as so many rivers, so many showers of rain from above, so many medicinal springs do not alter the taste of the sea, so the pressure of adversity does not affect the mind of the brave man. For it maintains its balance, and over all that happens it throws its own complexion, because it is more powerful than external circumstances.