Tranqility is a certain quality of mind, which no condition or fortune can either exalt or depress.

There is nothing the busy man is less busied with than living; there is nothing harder to learn.

That which Fortune has not given, she cannot take away.

Pain, scorned by yonder gout-ridden wretch, endured by yonder dyspeptic in the midst of his dainties, borne bravely by the girl in travail. Slight thou art, if I can bear thee, short thou art if I cannot bear thee!

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

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

Certain laws have not been written, but they are more fixed than all the written laws.