Our words should aim not to please, but to help.
Success gives the character of honesty to some classes of wickedness.
The more violent the storm the sooner it is over.
It is difficult to bring people to goodness with lessons, but it is easy to do so by example.
A man afraid of death will never play the part of a live man.
We are born to lose and to perish, to hope and to fear, to vex ourselves and others; and there is no antidote against a common calamity but virtue; for the foundation of true joy is in the conscience.