We know but a few men, a great many coats and breeches.

Instead of noblemen, let us have noble villages of men.

Men have a respect for scholarship and learning greatly out of proportion to the use they commonly serve.

I have thought there was some advantage even in death, by which we mingle with the herd of common men.

Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.

Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it.

Money is not required to buy one necessity of the soul.

To have done anything just for money is to have been truly idle.

An early-morning walk is a blessing for the whole day.

All men are children, and of one family. The same tale sends them all to bed, and wakes them in the morning.