You cannot, I repeat, successfully acquire it and preserve your modesty at the same time.

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.

There is nothing that we can properly call our own but our time, and yet everybody fools us out of it who has a mind to do it. If a man borrows a paltry sum of money, there must needs be bonds and securities, and every common civility is presently charged upon account. But he who has my time thinks he owes me nothing for it, though it be a debt that gratitude itself can never repay.

Those that are a friend to themselves are sure to be a friend to all.

However wretched a fellow-mortal may be, he is still a member of our common species.

If wisdom were offered me with this restriction, that I should keep it close and not communicate it, I would refuse the gift.

Four things does a reckless man gain who covets his neighbor's wife - demerit, an uncomfortable bed, thirdly, punishment, and lastly, hell.