He may as well not thank at all, who thanks when none are by.
I require myself not to be equal to the best, but to be better then the bad.
Adversity finds at last the man whom she has often passed by.
We become wiser by adversity; prosperity destroys our appreciation of the right." "True happiness is ... to enjoy the present" "It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are difficult.
Some cures are worse than the dangers they combat.
It is well to be born either a king or a fool.