"The man who makes everything that leads to happiness, depends upon himself, and not upon other men, has adopted the very best plan for living happily. This is the man of moderation, the man of manly character and of wisdom."

"A good decision is based on knowledge and not on numbers."

"Every king springs from a race of slaves, and every slave had kings among his ancestors."

"The madness of love is the greatest of heaven's blessings."

"All enquiry and all learning is but recollection."

"Wealth, and poverty; the one is the parent of luxury and indolence, and the other of meanness and viciousness, and both of discontent."

"An empty vessel makes the loudest sound, so they that have the least wit are the greatest babblers."

"A work well begun is half ended."

"This feeling of wonder shows that you are a philosopher, since wonder is the only beginning of philosophy."

"The thing to be done does not choose, I imagine, to tarry the leisure of the doer, but the doer must be at the beck of the thing to be done, and not treat it as a secondary affair."