Ask for a valiant heart which has banished the fear of death, which looks upon length of days as one of the least of nature's gifts; which is able to suffer every kind of hardship, is proof against anger, craves for nothing, and reckons the trials and gruelling labours of Hercules as more desirable blessings than the amorous ease and the banquets and cushions of Sardanapallus. The things that I recommend you can grant to yourself.

Many commit the same crimes with a very different result. One bears a cross for his crime; another a crown.

Nature, in giving tears to man, confessed that he Had a tender heart; this is our noblest quality.

There is hardly a case in which the dispute was not caused by a woman.

We deem those happy who, from the experience of life, have learned to bear its ills, without being overcome by them.

A pauper traveller will sing before a beggar.

Refrain from doing ill; for one all powerful reason, lest our children should copy our misdeeds; we are all too prone to imitate whatever is base and depraved.