No possession is gratifying without a companion.

The bounty of nature is too little for the greedy person.

Nothing will ever please me, no matter how excellent or beneficial, if I must retain the knowledge of it to myself. . . . . . No good thing is pleasant to possess, without friends to share it.

Corporeal punishment falls far more heavily than most weighty pecuniary penalty.

Fate rules the affairs of men, with no recognizable order.

Men trust rather to their eyes than to their ears; the effect of precepts is therefore slow and tedious, whilst that of examples is summary and effectual.

Poverty with joy isn't poverty at all. The poor man is not one who has little, but one who hankers after more.