If all misfortunes were laid in one common heap whence everyone must take an equal portion, most people would be contented to take their own and depart.

They are not only idle who do nothing, but they are idle also who might be better employed.

I do nothing but go about persuading you all, old and young alike, not to take thought for your persons or your properties, but and chiefly to care about the greatest improvement of the soul.

Wisdom is knowing how little we know.

Flattery is like friendship in show, but not in fruit.

A painter will paint a cobbler, carpenter, or any other artist, though he knows nothing of their arts; and, if he is a good artist, he may deceive children or simple persons, when he shows them his picture of a carpenter from a distance, and they will fancy that they are looking at a real carpenter.

To know thyself is the beginning of wisdom.