Nothing should be valued higher than the value of the day.

Beware of wishing for anything in youth, because you will get it in middle age.

The further one advances in experience, the closer one comes to the unfathomable; the more one learns to utilize experience, the more one recognizes that the unfathomable is of no practical value.

Man is made by his belief. As he believes, so he is.

One cannot always be a hero, but one can always be a man.

Who is the most sensible person? The one who finds what is to their own advantage in all that happens to them.

There are people who pay attention to the weaknesses of their friends; that is to no avail. I have always closely watched and profited from the strengths of my adversaries.