The profit on a good action is to have done it.
Even after a bad harvest there must be sowing.
Everything hangs on one's thinking.
To things which you bear with impatience you should accustom yourself, and, by habit you will bear them well.
He that by harshness of nature rules his family with an iron hand is as truly a tyrant as he who misgoverns a nation.
It is opportunity that makes the thief.