A man is as unhappy as he has convinced himself he is.

So live with an inferior as you would wish a superior to live with you.

The good things of prosperity are to be wished; but the good things that belong to adversity are to be admired.

The spirit in which a thing is given determines that in which the debt is acknowledged; it's the intention, not the face-value of the gift, that's weighed.

For many men, the acquisition of wealth does not end their troubles, it only changes them.

The tempest threatens before it comes; houses creak before they fall.

The origin of all mankind was the same; it is only a clear and good conscience that makes a man noble, for that is derived from heaven itself.