Lay hold of today's task, and you will not depend so much upon tomorrow's.

Upon occasion we should go as far as intoxication.... Drink washes cares away, stirs the mind from its lowest depths.... But in liberty moderation is wholesome, and so it is in wine.... We ought not indulge too often, for fear the mind contract a bad habit, yet it is right to draw it toward elation and release and to banish dull sobriety for a little.

Behold a contest worthy of a god, a brave man matched in conflict with adversity.

It is not poverty that we praise, it is the man whom poverty cannot humble or bend.

Prosperity asks for fidelity; adversity exacts it.

It is by the benefit of letters that absent friends are in a manner brought together.

There is no evil that does not offer inducements. Vices tempt you by the rewards which they offer.