Nothing is ours except time.

True wisdom consists in not departing from nature and in molding our conduct according to her laws and model.

Those who boast of their descent, brag on what they owe to others.

The great pilot can sail even when his canvass is rent.

These individulas have riches just as we say that we 'have a fever,' when really the fever has us.

I never come back home with the same moral character I went out with; something or other becomes unsettled where I had achieved internal peace; some one or other of the things I had put to flight reappears on the scene.

Good sides to adversity are best admired at a distance.