We are more wicked together than separately. If you are forced to be in a crowd, then most of all you should withdraw into yourself.

He is greedy of life who is not willing to die when the world is perishing around him.

Nothing is more honorable than a grateful heart.

Reasons for anxiety will never be lacking, whether born of prosperity or of wretchedness; life pushes on in a succession of engrossments. We shall always pray for leisure.

As the soil, however rich it may be, cannot be productive without cultivation, so the mind without culture can never produce good fruit

How much longer are you going to be a pupil? From now on do some teaching as well.

The road by precepts is tedious, by example, short and efficacious.