It would not be better if men got what they wanted.

In every work a reward added makes the pleasure twice as great.

What we look for does not come to pass; God finds a way for what none foresaw.

Today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday. Tragedy isn't getting something or failure to get it; it's losing something you already have. Waste not fresh tears over old griefs.

Only one in command: that's the way in the home And the way in the state when it must find Measures best for mankind.

Do not mistake the rule of force for true power. Men are not shaped by force.

Where there are two, one cannot be wretched, and one not.