The greatest difficulties lie where we are not looking for them.
If I work incessantly to the last, nature owes me another form of existence when the present one collapses.
Enjoy when you can, and endure when you must.
In comradeship is danger countered best.
The rich want good wine, the poor, plenty of wine
A man is not little when he finds it difficult to cope with circumstances, but when circumstances overmaster him.