It is easier to grow in dignity than to make a start.

A man can refrain from wanting what he has not and cheerfully make the best of a bird in the hand.

It is to the interest of the commonwealth of mankind that there should be someone who is unconquered, someone against whom fortune has no power.

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

Nothing is more hateful to wisdom than to much cunning.

There has never been any great genius without a spice of madness.

The first and greatest punishment of the sinner is the conscience of sin.