Who is everywhere is nowhere. When a person spends all his time in foreign travel, he ends by having many acquaintances, but no friends.

What else is nature but God?

There is nothing in the world so much admired as a man who knows how to bear unhappiness with courage.

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.

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.

There is a noble manner of being poor, and who does not know it will never be rich.

Nothing is more hateful to wisdom than to much cunning.