When in fear, it is safest to force the attack.

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.

We should every night call ourselves to an account: What infirmity have I mastered today? What passions opposed! What temptation resisted? What virtue acquired?

The road to learning by precept is long, but by example short and effective.

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

It is wrong not to give a hand to the fallen. This right is common to the whole human race.

The courts of kings are full of people, but empty of friends.