Our liberality should not exceed our ability.

If you possess a library and a garden, you have everything you need. (translation from the French) Si vous possedez une bibliotheque et un jardin, vous avez tout ce qu'il vous faut.

Dum Spiro, spero- As long as I breathe, I hope.

Let us remember that justice must be observed even to the lowest.

Nothing is so unpredictable as a throw of the dice, and yet every man who plays often will at some time or other make a Venus-cast: now and then he indeed will make it twice and even thrice in succession. Are we going to be so feebleminded then as to aver that such a thing happened by the personal intervention of Venus rather than by pure luck?

Friends are proved by adversity.

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