A great step toward independence is a good-humoured stomach.

Happy is the man who can endure the highest and lowest fortune. He who has endured such vicissitudes with equanimity has deprived misfortune of its power.

He who boasts of his descent, praises the deed of another.

Gold is tried by fire, brave men by adversity.

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

The greatest man is he who chooses right with the most invincible resolution; who resists to sorest temptation from within and without; who bears the heaviest burdens cheerfully; who is calmest in storms, and most fearless under menaces and frowns; whose reliance on truth, on virtue, and on God is most unfaltering.

Let ease and rest at times be given to the weary.