To bear other people's afflictions, everyone has courage and enough to spare.

Our necessities never equal our wants.

Money never made a man happy yet, nor will it. The more a man has, the more he wants. Instead of filling a vacuum, it makes one.

It is the eye of other people that ruin us. If I were blind I would want, neither fine clothes, fine houses or fine furniture.

The eye of the master will do more work than both his hands.

There never was a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous.

He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else.

Where there is marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.

An undutiful daughter will prove an unmanageable wife.

If passion drives you, let reason hold the reins.