Fortune may rob us of our wealth, not of our courage.
Whoever has nothing to hope, let him despair of nothing.
I am like a book, with pages that have stuck together for want of use: my mind needs unpacking and the truths stored within must be turned over from time to time, to be ready when occasion demands.
I was shipwrecked before I got aboard.
A coward calls himself cautious, a miser thrifty.
Tranqility is a certain quality of mind, which no condition or fortune can either exalt or depress.