Trifling trouble find utterance; deeply felt pangs are silent.

A friend always loves, but he who loves is not always a friend.

Diligence is a very great help even to a mediocre intelligence. -Diligentia maximum etiam mediocris ingeni subsidium

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

Corporeal punishment falls far more heavily than most weighty pecuniary penalty.

Just as so many rivers, so many showers of rain from above, so many medicinal springs do not alter the taste of the sea, so the pressure of adversity does not affect the mind of the brave man. For it maintains its balance, and over all that happens it throws its own complexion, because it is more powerful than external circumstances.

He that does good to another does good also to himself, not only in the consequence but in the very act. For the consciousness of well-doing is in itself ample reward.