There is a difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man is really so; but he that thinks himself the wisest is generally the greatest fool.

Prosperity is the blessing of the Old Testament; adversity is the blessing of the New.

He that cannot possibly mend his own case will do what he can to impair another's.

It was a high speech of Seneca that "The good things which belong to prosperity are to be wished, but the good things that belong to adversity are to be admired."

Pyrrhus, when his friends congratulated to him his victory over the Romans under Fabricius, but with great slaughter of his own side, said to them, "Yes; but if we have such another victory, we are undone."

The person is a poor judge who by an action can be disgraced more in failing than they can be honored in succeeding.

Aristotle... a mere bond-servant to his logic, thereby rendering it contentious and well nigh useless.