Fortitude is a great help in distress.

Practice yourself what you preach.

What you lend is lost; when you ask for it back, you may find a friend made an enemy by your kindness. If you begin to press him further, you have the choice of two things - either to lose your loan or lose your friend.

Even the whole of life is not sufficient for thorough learning.

Property is unstable, and youth perishes in a moment. Life itself is held in the grinning fangs of Death, Yet men delay to obtain release from the world. Alas, the conduct of mankind is surprising.

There's no such thing, you know, as picking out the best woman: it's only a question of comparative badness, brother.

A mouse does not rely on just one hole.