Fair peace is becoming to men; fierce anger belongs to beasts.
God himself helps those who dare.
It is hope which makes the shipwrecked sailor strike out with his arms in the midst of the sea, though no land is in sight.
Use the occasion, for it passes swiftly.
What is now reason was formerly impulse or instinct.
A good disposition is a virtue in itself, and it is lasting; the burden of the years cannot depress it, and love that is founded on it endures to the end.