The greater part of progress is the desire to progress.

Nothing is more honorable than a grateful heart.

Remember that pain has this most excellent quality. If prolonged it cannot be severe, and if severe it cannot be prolonged.

Men's language is as their lives.

Golden roofs break men's rest.

So live with an inferior as you would wish a superior to live with you.

The things which we hold in our hands, which we see with our eyes, and which our avarice hugs, are transitory, they may be taken from us by ill luck or by violence; but a kindness lasts even after the loss of that by means of which it was bestowed; for it is a good deed, which no violence can undo.