Man must suffer to be wise.

He who acknowledges a kindness has it still, and he who has a grateful sense of it has requited it.

Friendship was given by nature to be an assistant to virtue, not a companion in vice.

A perverse temper and fretful disposition will make any state of life whatsoever unhappy.

While there's life, there's hope.

Lucius Cassius ille quem populus Romanus verissimum et sapientissimum iudicem putabat identidem in causis quaerere solebat 'cui bono' fuisset. The famous Lucius Cassius, whom the Roman people used to regard as a very honest and wise judge, was in the habit of asking, time and again, 'To whose benefit?

To be content with what we possess is the greatest and most secure of riches.