Each part of life has its own pleasures. Each has its own abundant harvest, to be garnered in season. We may grow old in body, but we need never grow old in mind and spirit. No one is as old as to think he or she cannot live one more year.

The gods attend to great matters, they neglect small ones.

The greater the difficulty, the greater the glory.

Confidence is that feeling by which the mind embarks in great and honorable courses with a sure hope and trust in itself.

There has never been a poet or orator who thought another better than himself.

Never injure a friend, even in jest.

Friends are proved by adversity.