This body is not a home, but an inn; and that only for a short time.

To things which you bear with impatience you should accustom yourself, and, by habit you will bear them well.

The greatest power of ruling consists in the exercise of self-control.

It is the superfluous things for which men sweat, - superfluous things that wear our togas theadbare, that force us to grow old in camp, that dash us upon foreign shores.

No crime has been without a precedent.

It is essential to make oneself used to putting up with a little. Even the wealthy and the well provided are continually met and frustrated by difficult times and situations. It is in no man's power to have whatever he wants; but he has it in his power not to wish for what he hasn't got, and cheerfully make the most of the things that do come his way.

He who begs timidly courts a refusal.