For greed, all nature is too little.

On him does death lie heavily, who, but too well known to all, dies to himself unknown.

The worse a person is the less he feels it.

It is the constant fault and inseparable evil quality of ambition, that it never looks behind it.

Remember that pain has this most excellent quality. If prolonged it cannot be severe, and if severe it cannot be prolonged.

Every day, therefore, should be regulated as if it were the one that brings up the rear, the one that rounds out and completes our lives.

The things that are essential are acquired with little bother; it is the luxuries that call for toil and effort.