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| We should every night call ourselves to an account: what infirmity have I mastered to-day? what passions opposed? what temptation resisted? what virtue acquired? Our vices will abate of themselves if they be brought every day to the shrift. | | Passion; Virtue | |
| We should give as we would receive, cheerfully, quickly, and without hesitation; for there is no grace in a benefit that sticks to the fingers. | | Uncategorized | |
| Wealth falls on some men as a copper down a drain | | Wealth | |
| What difference does it make how much you have? What you do not have amounts to much more. | | Money; Possessions | |
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| What madness it is for a man to starve himself to enrich his heir, and so turn a friend into an enemy! For his joy at your death will be proportioned to what you leave him | | Uncategorized | |
| What must be shall be; and that which is a necessity to him that struggles, is little more than choice to him that is willing | | Uncategorized | |
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| What should a wise person do when given a blow? Same as Cato when he was attacked; not fire up or revenge the insult., or even return the blow, but simply ignore it. | | Uncategorized | |
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| Whatever fortune has raised to a height, she has raised only to cast it down. | | Uncategorized | |
| Whatever has overstepped its due bounds is always in a state of instability. | | Uncategorized | |
| Whatever is to make us better and happy, God has placed either openly before us or close to us | | God | |
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| Whatever one of us blames in another, each one will find in his own heart. | | Uncategorized | |
| When an author is too meticulous about his style, you may presume that his mind is frivolous and his content flimsy. | | Uncategorized | |
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| When I think over what I have said, I envy dumb people. | | Uncategorized | |
