If you do anything well, gratitude is lighter than a feather; if you give offense in anything, people's wrath is as heavy as lead.
Things unhoped for happen oftener than things we desire.
How great in number are the little minded men
Nothing is there more friendly to a man than a friend in need.
I regard that man as lost, who has lost his sense of shame.
In grasping at uncertainties we lost that which is certain.