Men understand the worth of blessings only when they have lost them.
If anything is spoken in jest, it is not fair to turn it to earnest.
You will not be a chip the richer.
A man with courage has every blessing.
Bad conduct soils the finest ornament more than filth.
To ask that which is unjust at the hands of the just, is an injustice in itself; to expect that which is just from the unjust, is simple folly.