Indolence is stagnation; employment is life.

Demand not that I am the equal of the greatest, only that I am better than the wicked.

The guilt of enforced crimes lies on those who impose them.

That which is given with pride and ostentation is rather an ambition than a bounty.

It is the characteristic of a weak and diseased mind to fear the unfamiliar.

A man who examines the saddle and bridle and not the animal itself when he is out to buy a horse is a fool; similarly, only an absolute fool values a man according to his clothes, or according to his position, which after all is only something we wear like clothing.

He who receives a benefit with gratitude, repays the first installment of it.