He possesses dominion over himself, and is happy, who can every day say, "I have lived." Tomorrow the heavenly father may either involve the world in dark clouds, or cheer it with clear sunshine, he will not, however, render ineffectual the things which have already taken place.

Undeservedly you will atone for the sins of your fathers.

Nothing is achieved without toil.

No man ever reached to excellence in any one art or profession without having passed through the slow and painful process of study and preparation.

Doctrina sed vim promovet insitam. Instruction enlarges the natural powers of the mind.

There are lessons to be learned from a stupid man.

Rains driven by storms fall not perpetually on the land already sodden, neither do varying gales for ever disturb the Caspian sea.