It is a great piece of skill to know how to guide your luck even while waiting for it.

There is no wilderness like a life without friends; friendship multiplies blessings and minimizes misfortunes; it is a unique remedy against adversity, and it soothes the soul.

One must pass through the circumference of time before arriving at the center of opportunity.

Hope has a good memory, gratitude a bad one.

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.]

Do not show your wounded finger for everything will knock up against it.

God Himself chasteneth not with a rod but with time.