It takes more strength of character to withstand good fortune than bad.
Youth is a continual intoxication; it is the fever of reason.
We give advice, we do not inspire conduct.
Fortune mends more faults in us than ever reason would be able to do.
We frequently are troublesome to others, when we think it impossible for us ever to be so.
The caprice of our temper is even more whimsical than that of Fortune.