I do detest everything which is not perfectly mutual.

Fragrance clings to the hand that gives the rose.

I have somewhere met with the epitaph on a charitable man which has pleased me very much. I cannot recollect the words, but here is the sense of it: ''What I spent I lost; what I possessed is left to others; what I gave away remains with me.''

Sow much, reap much; sow little, reap little.

There never was a person who did anything worth doing, who did not receive more than he gave.

It is by teaching that we teach ourselves, by relating that we observe, by affirming that we examine, by showing that we look, by writing that we think, by pumping that we draw water into the well.

There would be no advantage to be gained by sowing a field of wheat if the harvest did not return more than was sown.

We read on the foreheads of those who are surrounded by a foolish luxury, that fortune sells what she is thought to give.

It is rare indeed that people give. Most people guard and keep; they suppose that it is they themselves and what they identify with themselves that they are guarding and keeping, whereas what they are actually guarding and keeping is their system of reality and what they assume themselves to be.

For of those to whom much is given, much is required.