Fortune is like a coquette; if you don't run after her, she will run after you.

Seneca devoted much of his time to writing essays in praise of poverty, and in lending money at usurious rates.

Silence is one of the hardest kind of arguments to refute. There is no good substitute for wisdom; but silence is the best that has yet been discovered.

As the flint contains the spark, unknown to itself, which the steel alone can awaken to life, so adversity often reveals to us hidden gems, which prosperity or negligence would forever have hidden.

As in a game ov cards, so in the game ov life, we must play what is dealt tew us, and the glory consists, not so mutch in winning, as in playing a poor hand well.

Rivalry and envy are Siamese twins.

I have never known a person to live to be one hundred and be remarkable for anything else.