A gift consists not in what is done or given, but in the intention of the giver or doer.

That which is given with pride and ostentation is rather an ambition than a bounty.

The display of grief makes more demands than grief itself. How few men are sad in their own company.

Wisdom does not show itself so much in precept as in life - in firmness of mind and a mastery of appetite. It teaches us to do as well as to talk; and to make our words and actions all of a color.

It is true greatness to have in one the frailty of a man and the security of a god.

No man was ever wise by chance.