He who looks for advantage out of friendship strips it all of its nobility.

No evil is without its compensation ... it is not the loss itself, but the estimate of the loss, that troubles us.

Let us be brave in the face of adversity.

Let us train our minds to desire what the situation demands.

Courage leads starward, fear toward death.

Unhappy is the man, though he rule the world, who doesn't consider himself supremely blessed. In order to consider himself supremely blessed he must deeply understand that things could be much worse but aren't! To not do that is to always be less happy than he could be.

I shall never be ashamed of citing a bad author if the line is good.