This used to be among my prayers – a piece of land not so very large, which would contain a garden.
When I caution you against becoming a miser, I do not therefore advise you to become a prodigal or a spendthrift.
Summer treads on heels of spring.
Poverty urges us to do and suffer anything that we may escape from it, and so leads us away from virtue.
The man who is tenacious of purpose in a rightful cause is not shaken from his firm resolve by the frenzy of his fellow citizens clamoring for what is wrong, or by the tyrant’s threatening countenance.
Enjoy the present day, as distrusting that which is to follow.
There is need of brevity, that the thought may run on.
Often a purple patch or two is tacked on to a serious work of high promise, to give an effect of colour.
What we hear strikes the mind with less force than what we see.
The hour of happiness which comes unexpectedly is the happiest.
In going abroad we change the climate not our dispositions.
In avoiding one vice fools rush into the opposite extreme.
In a long work sleep may be naturally expected.
If you cannot conduct yourself with propriety, give place to those who can.
If you are only an underling, don’t dress too fine.
If things look badly to-day they may look better tomorrow.
In hard times, no less than in prosperity, preserve equanimity.
In my integrity I’ll wrap me up.
In neglected fields the fern grows, which must be cleared out by fire.
It is not every man that can afford to go to Corinth.