No untroubled day has ever dawned for me.

You learn to know a pilot in a storm.

Let us cherish and love old age; for it is full of pleasure, if you know how to use it. The best morsel is reserved for last.

Nothing is more hateful to wisdom than to much cunning.

Diligence is a very great help even to a mediocre intelligence. -Diligentia maximum etiam mediocris ingeni subsidium

Choose as a guide one whom you will admire more when you see him act than when you hear him speak.

But when you are looking on anyone as a friend when you do not trust him as you trust yourself, you are making a grave mistake, and have failed to grasp sufficiently the full force of true friendship.