When you see a man in distress, recognize him as a fellow man.

No tree becomes rooted and sturdy unless many a wind assails it. For by its very tossing it tightens its grip and plants its roots more securely; the fragile trees are those that have grown in a sunny valley.

The wretched hasten to hear of their own miseries.

You need a change of soul rather than a change of climate.

Death is the wish of some, the relief of many, and the end of all. It sets the slave at liberty, carries the banished man home, and places all mortals on the same level, insomuch that life itself were a punishment without it.

Nothing is more disgraceful than that an old man should have nothing to show to prove that he has lived long, except his years.

If you wish to be loved, love.