With parsimony a little is sufficient; without it nothing is sufficient; but frugality makes a poor man rich.

Whereas a prolonged life is not necessarily better, a prolonged death is necessarily worse.

The sovereign good of man is a mind that subjects all things to itself and is itself subject to nothing; such a man's pleasures are modest and reserved, and it may be a question whether he goes to heaven, or heaven comes to him; for a good man is influenced by God Himself, and has a kind of divinity within him.

Prosperity asks for fidelity; adversity exacts it.

Human affairs are like a chess-game: only those who do not take it seriously can be called good players. Life is like an earthen pot: only when it is shattered, does it manifest its emptiness.

Behold a contest worthy of a god, a brave man matched in conflict with adversity.

How many discoveries are reserved for the ages to come when our memory shall be no more, for this world of ours contains matter for investigation for all generations.