Elegance is not an ornament worthy of man.
A great step towards independence is a good-humored stomach, one that is willing to endure rough treatment.
Fortune dreads the brave, and is only terrible to the coward.
You cannot escape necessities, but you can overcome them.
Anger is like a ruin, which, in falling upon its victim, breaks itself to pieces.
A physician is not angry at the intemperance of a mad patient, nor does he take it ill to be railed at by a man in fever. Just so should a wise man treat all mankind, as a physician does his patient, and look upon them only as sick and extravagant.