Not everyone is a debtor who wishes to be; not everyone who wishes makes creditors.

I place no hope in my strength, nor in my works: but all my confidence is in God my protector, who never abandons those who have put all their hope and thought in him.

Nature made the day for exercise, work and seeing to one's business; and ... it provides us with a candle, which is to say the bright and joyous light of the sun.

So much is a man worth as he esteems himself.

In this mortal life, nothing is blessed throughout.

Can there be any greater dotage in the world than for one to guide and direct his courses by the sound of a bell, and not by his own judgment.

Half the world does not know how the other half lives.