So live with men as if God saw you and speak to God, as if men heard you.

Time is the one thing that is given to everyone in equal measure.

That grief is light which can take counsel.

On him does death lie heavily, who, but too well known to all, dies to himself unknown.

The important thing about a problem is not its solution, but the strength we gain in finding the solution

Fortune's not content with knocking a man down; she sends him spinning head over heels, crash upon crash.

For men in a state of freedom had thatch for their shelter, while slavery dwells beneath marble and gold.