Let love give way to business; give attention to business and you will be safe.
People are slow to claim confidence in undertakings of magnitude.
If you want to be loved, be lovable.
All other creatures look down toward the earth, but man was given a face so that might turn his eyes toward the stars and his gaze upon the sky.
Remove but the temptations of leisure, and the bow of Cupid will lose its effect.
What is deservedly suffered must be borne with calmness, but when the pain is unmerited, the grief is resistless.