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.

If sensuality were happiness, beasts were happier than men; but human felicity is lodged in the soul, not in the flesh.

A good person dyes events with his own color . . . and turns whatever happens to his own benefit.

We live not according to reason, but according to fashion.

Everything may happen.

Believe me, that was a happy age, before the days of architects, before the days of builders.

Light is that grief which counsel can allay.