We are apt to love praise, but not deserve it. But if we would deserve it, we must love virtue more than that.

To delay justice, is injustice.

Time is what we want most, but what we use worst.

Knowledge is the treasure of a wise man.

The jealous are troublesome to others, but a torment to themselves.

In marriage do thou be wise: prefer the person before money, virtue before beauty, the mind before the body; then thou hast a wife, a friend, a companion, a second self.