Success is not greedy, as people think, but insignificant. That is why it satisfies nobody.

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.

It is rash to condemn where you are ignorant.

He who fears from near at hand often fears less.

That comes too late that comes for the asking.

The voice of flattery affects us after it has ceased, just as after a concert men find some agreeable air ringing in their ears to the exclusion of all serious business.

When modesty has once perished, it will never revive.