Failure changes for the better, success for the worse.
The courts of kings are full of people, but empty of friends.
True happiness is to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future, not to amuse ourselves with either hopes or fears but to rest satisfied with what we have, which is sufficient, for he that is so wants nothing.
Courage leads starward, fear toward death.
It is a great thing to know the season for speech and the season for silence.
A quarrel is quickly settled when deserted by one party; there is no battle unless there be two.