To be at ease is better than to be at business. Nothing really belongs to us but time, which you have even if you have nothing else.

One deceit needs many others, and so the whole house is built in the air and must soon come to the ground

Maturity is the slowness in which a man believes.

The heaven of the envied is hell for the envious. [...because they focus on what they don't have rather than being grateful for what they have, which is always better than some others.]

When you find Fortune favorable, stride boldly forward, for she favors the bold, and being a woman, the young.

Nature often lets us down when we most need her; let us turn to art.

Hope is a great falsifier of truth.