“The day, water, sun, moon, night – I do not have to purchase these things with money.”

Where there are friends there is wealth.

If you speak insults you will hear them also.

I had much rather be adorned by beauty of character than by jewels. Jewels are the gift of fortune, character comes from within.

To ask that which is unjust at the hands of the just, is an injustice in itself; to expect that which is just from the unjust, is simple folly.

If you squander on a holyday, you will want on a workday unless you have been sparing.

A word to the wise is sufficient

Even the whole of life is not sufficient for thorough learning.

Men understand the worth of blessings only when they have lost them.

No one can be so welcome a guest that he will not become an annoyance when he has stayed three continuous days in a friend’s house.

There are occasions when it is undoubtedly better to incur loss than to make gain.

To an honest man, it is an honor to have remembered his duty.

Ah yes, the gods use us mortals as footballs!

Unexpected results are the rule rather than the exception.

Smooth words in place of gifts.

Badly gotten, badly spent.

Let not your expenditure exceed your income.

He gains wisdom in a happy way, who gains it by another’s experience.

There are games in which it is better to lose than win.

Why should he who is scared be careful?

For, in the vernacular, we Americans are suckers for good news.

The dreadful fear of hell is to be driven out, which disturbs the life of man and renders it miserable, overcasting all things with the blackness of darkness, and leaving no pure, unalloyed pleasure.

There is no avoiding the fact that we live at the mercy of our ideas This is never more true than with our ideas about God.

I am myself my own commander.

So, whatever initial trepidation or fear I may have had was alleviated by those factors.