It is often better not to see an insult than to avenge it.

Money has never yet made anyone rich.

Fortune dreads the brave, and is only terrible to the coward.

Principles are like seeds; they are little things which do much good, if the mind that receives them has the right attitudes.

What a great blessing is a friend with a heart so trusty you may safely bury all your secrets in it.

He who would arrive at the appointed end must follow a single road and not wander through many ways.

One must take all one's life to learn how to leave, and what will perhaps make you wonder more, one must take all one's life to learn how to die.