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

Cato, being scurrilously treated by a low and vicious fellow, quietly said to him, "A contest between us is very unequal, for thou canst bear ill language with ease, and return it with pleasure; but to me it is unusual to hear, and disagreeable to speak it." There are none more abusive to others than they that lie most open to it themselves; but the humor goes round, and he that laughs at me today will have somebody to laugh at him tomorrow.

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

A man is as unhappy as he has convinced himself he is.

The worst thing about getting old is evil men cease to fear you

Retirement without literary amusements is death itself, and a living tomb.

No man is more unhappy than he who never faces adversity. For he is not permitted to prove himself.