Adversity finds at last the man whom she has often passed by.

I was shipwrecked before I got aboard.

Courage leads to heaven; fear leads to death.

There is nothing that we can properly call our own but our time, and yet everybody fools us out of it who has a mind to do it. If a man borrows a paltry sum of money, there must needs be bonds and securities, and every common civility is presently charged upon account. But he who has my time thinks he owes me nothing for it, though it be a debt that gratitude itself can never repay.

As long as we are among humans, let us be humane.

That poverty is no disaster is understood by everyone who has not yet succumbed to the madness of greed and luxury that turns everything topsy-turvy.

He who has made a fair compact with poverty is rich.