Even genius is tied to profit..

Forge thy tongue on an anvil of truth and what flies up, though it be but a spark, will have light..

The test of any man lies in action..

Words have a longer life than deeds..

Learn what you are and be such..

Envy, the attendant of the empty mind..

Creatures of a day, what is any one? What is he not? Man is but a dream of a shadow. Yet when there comes as a gift of heaven a gleam of sunshine, th….

O my soul, do not aspire to immortal life, but exhaust the limits of the possible..

Often silence is the wisest thing for a man to heed..

Even now I am full of hope, but the end lies in God..

Every noble deed dieth, if suppressed in silence..

In all things rest is sweet; there is sur feit even in honey, even in Aphrodite s lovely flowers..

Every gift which is given, even though is be small, is in reality great, if it is given with affection.

Man's pleasure is a short time growing And it falls to the ground As quickly..

Time is the best preserver of righteous men..

If any man thinks to swindle God, he is wrong..

To be envied is a nobler fate than to be pitied..

Convention is the ruler of all..

Mother of the Sun, Theia of many names, for your sake men honor gold as more powerful than anything else; and through the value you bestow on them, o….

For lawless joys a bitter ending waits..

The noblest of the elements is water.