We may have many acquaintances, but we can have but few friends; this made Aristotle say that he that hath many friends hath none.
Our aspirations are our possibilities.
Greece appears to be the fountain of knowledge; Rome of elegance
Stand Firm for your country, and become a man Honour'd and lov'd: It were a noble life, To be found dead, embracing her.
A man used to vicissitudes is not easily dejected.
Attainment is followed by neglect, possession by disgust, and the malicious remark of the Greek epigrammatist on marriage may be applied to many another course of life, that its two days of happiness are the first and the last