Remember that pain has this most excellent quality. If prolonged it cannot be severe, and if severe it cannot be prolonged.

I am ashamed of my master and not of my servitude.

Our words should aim not to please, but to help.

The greatest man is he who chooses right with the most invincible resolution.

Long is the road to learning by precepts, but short and successful by examples.

Humanity is fortunate, because no man is unhappy except by his own fault.

A thing seriously pursued affords true enjoyment.