Gold is Caesar's treasure, man is God's; thy gold hath Caesar's image, and thou hast God's.

Has fortune dealt you some bad cards. Then let wisdom make you a good gamester.

He that gives all, though but little, gives much; because God looks not to the quantity of the gift, but to the quality of the givers.

That friendship will not continue to the end which is begun for an end.

Be as far from desiring the popular love as fearful to deserve the popular hate; ruin dwells in both: the one will hug thee to death; the other will crush thee to destruction: to escape the first, be not ambitious; to avoid the second, be not seditious.

The way to bliss lies not on beds of down, And he that had no cross deserves no crown.

Let the fear of a danger be a spur to prevent it; he that fears not gives advantage to the danger; it is less folly not to endeavor the prevention of the evil thou fearest than to fear the evil which thy endeavor cannot prevent.