Our lives ... are but a little while, so let them run as sweetly as you can, and give no thought to grief from day to day. For time is not concerned to keep our hopes, but hurries on its business, and is gone.

Evil men by their own nature cannot ever prosper.

There is no benefit in the gifts of a bad man.

Life has no blessing like a prudent friend.

Every man is like the company he wont to keep.

The good and the wise lead quiet lives.

To persevere, trusting in what hopes he has, is courage in a man.