I was shipwrecked before I got aboard.

Greatness stands upon a precipice, and if prosperity carries a man never so little beyond his poise, it overbears and dashes him to pieces.

That poverty is no disaster is understood by everyone who has not yet succumbed to the madness of greed and luxury that turns everything topsy-turvy.

Such is the blindness, nay the insanity of mankind, that some men are driven to death by the fear of it.

To give and to lose is nothing; but to lose and to give still is the part of a great mind.

Golden roofs break men's rest.

A man who suffers or stresses before it is necessary, suffers more than is necessary