Indolence is stagnation; employment is life.

If you live according to nature, you never will be poor; if according to the world's caprice, you will never be rich.

Who timidly requests invites refusal.

If thou art a man, admire those who attempt great things, even though they fail.

It is sweet to mingle tears with tears; Griefs, where they wound in solitude, Wound more deeply.

The man who spends his time choosing one resort after another in a hunt for peace and quiet will in every place he visits find something to prevent him from relaxing.

Solitude and company may be allowed to take their turns: the one creates in us the love of mankind, the other that of ourselves; solitude relieves us when we are sick of company, and conversation when we are weary of being alone, so that the one cures the other. There is no man so miserable as he that is at a loss how to use his time