He who receives a benefit with gratitude, repays the first installment of it.

Poverty with joy isn't poverty at all. The poor man is not one who has little, but one who hankers after more.

Nobody becomes guilty by fate.

He who comes to a conclusion when the other side is unheard, may have been just in his conclusion, but yet has not been just in his conduct.

Fire proves gold, adversity proves men.

As the soil, however rich it may be, cannot be productive without cultivation, so the mind without culture can never produce good fruit

Do the best you can . . . enjoy the present . . . rest satisfied with what you have.