Prosperity is no just scale; adversity is the only balance to weigh friends.

Learn to be pleased with everything...because it could always be worse, but isn't!

So also it is good not always to make a friend of the person who is expert in twining himself around us; but, after testing them, to attach ourselves to those who are worthy of our affection and likely to be serviceable to us.

Memory: what wonders it performs in preserving and storing up things gone by - or rather, things that are

Forgetfulness transforms every occurrence into a non-occurrence.

It were better to have no opinion of God at all than such a one as is unworthy of him; for the one is only belief - the other contempt.

Those are greedy of praise prove that they are poor in merit.