Small sorrows speak great ones are silent.

We gain so much by quickness, and lose so much by slowness.

Cling tooth and nail to the following rule: Not to give in to adversity, never to trust prosperity, and always to take full note of fortune's habit of behaving just as she pleases, treating her as if she were actually going to do everything it is in her power to do. Whatever you have been expecting for some time comes as less of a shock.

Make haste to live, and consider each day a life.

Accustom yourself to that which you bear ill, and you will bear it well.

Our life's a moment and less than a moment, but even this mite nature has mockingly humored with some appearance of a longer span.

As fate is inexorable, and not to be moved either with tears or reproaches, an excess of sorrow is as foolish as profuse laughter; while, on the other hand, not to mourn at all is insensibility.