The world itself is too small for the covetous.

The mind does not easily unlearn what it has been long in learning.

True joy is a serene and sober motion; and they are miserably out so that take laughing for rejoicing; the seat of it is within, and there is no cheerfulness like the resolutions of a brave mind.

To govern was to serve, not to rule.

To want simply what is enough nowadays suggests to people primitiveness and squalor.

The ascent from earth to heaven is not easy.

Let him who has granted a favour speak not of it; let him who has received one, proclaim it.