Calamity is virtue's opportunity.

Servitude seizes on few, but many seize on her.

If wisdom were offered me with this restriction, that I should keep it close and not communicate it, I would refuse the gift.

Whatever we owe, it is our part to find where to pay it, and to do it without asking, too; for whether the creditor be good or bad, the debt is still the same.

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

When thou hast profited so much that thou respectest even thyself, thou mayst let go thy tutor.

There is nothing after death, and death itself is nothing.