Our very wretchedness grows dear to us when suffering for one we love.

The circle of life is cut up into segments. All lines are equal if they are drawn from the centre and touch the circumference.

The food of hope is meditative action.

He who seeks repentance for the past, should woo the angel virtue for the future.

Youth is in danger until it learns to look upon debts as furies.

Ere yet we yearn for what is out of our reach, we are still in the cradle. When wearied out with our yearnings, desire again falls asleep; we are on the death-bed.

Each man forms his duty according to his predominant characteristic; the stern require an avenging judge; the gentle, a forgiving father. Just so the pygmies declared that Jove himself was a pygmy.