Whoever has nothing to hope, let him despair of nothing.

The proper amount of wealth is that which neither descends to poverty nor is far distant from it.

We pardon familiar vices.

A hungry people listens not to reason, not cares for justice, nor is bent by any prayers.

The Fates guide those who go willingly. Those who do not, they drag.

Many men provoke others to overreach them by excessive suspicion; their extraordinary distrust in some sort justifies the deceit.

If ever you come upon a grove of ancient trees which have grown to an exceptional height, shutting out a view of sky by a veil of pleached and intertwining branches, then the loftiness of the forest, the seclusion of the spot and your marvel at the thick unbroken shade in the midst of the open spaces, will prove to you the presence of deity.