Persistent kindness conquers the ill-disposed.
It is bad to live for necessity; but there is no necessity to live in necessity.
He who boasts of his pedigree praises that which does not belong to him.
No one can have a peaceful life who thinks too much about lengthening it.
Dignity increases more easily than it begins.
There is nothing the busy man is less busied with than living; there is nothing harder to learn.