The world itself is too small for the covetous.

We learn not in the school, but in life.

It is only luxury and avarice that make poverty grievous to us; for it is a very small matter that does our business, and when we have provided against cold, hunger, and thirst, all the rest is but vanity and excess.

Virtue depends partly upon training and partly upon practice; you must learn first, and then strengthen your learning by action. If this be true, not only do the doctrines of wisdom help us but the precepts also, which check and banish our emotions by a sort of official decree.

May be is very well, but Must is the master. It is my duty to show justice without recompense.

Money has never yet made anyone rich.

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