We are at best but stewards of what we falsely call our own; yet avarice is so insatiable that it is not in the power of liberality to content it.

The pressure of adversity does not affect the mind of the brave man. It is more powerful than external circumstances.

The wretched hasten to hear of their own miseries.

The way is long if one follows precepts, but short... if one follows patterns.

Now we are not merely to stick knowledge on to the soul: we must incorporate it into her; the soul should not be sprinkled with knowledge but steeped in it.

Let not the enjoyment of pleasures now within your grasp, be carried to such excess as to incapacitate you from future repetition.

You must live for another if you wish to live for yourself.