Help yourself, and Heaven will help you.
There is no road of flowers leading to glory.
Every one turns his dreams into realities as far as he can; man is cold as ice to the truth, hot as fire to falsehood.
We read on the foreheads of those who are surrounded by a foolish luxury, that fortune sells what she is thought to give.
Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.
Death never takes the wise man by surprise, he is always ready to go.