Virtue does not come from wealth, but wealth, and every other good thing which men have comes from virtue.
Beauty is a short-lived tyranny.
Be the kind of person that you want people to think you are.
I have lived long enough to learn how much there is I can really do without.... He is nearest to God who needs the fewest things.
Knowledge is our ultimate good.
One should never do wrong in return, nor mistreat any man, no matter how one has been mistreated by him.