To things which you bear with impatience you should accustom yourself, and, by habit you will bear them well.

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

Every day, therefore, should be regulated as if it were the one that brings up the rear, the one that rounds out and completes our lives.

Those whom true love has held, it will go on holding.

The intellect must not be kept at consistent tension, but diverted by pastimes.... The mind must have relaxation, and will rise stronger and keener after recreation.

Demand not that I am the equal of the greatest, only that I am better than the wicked.

Let him that hath done the good office conceal it; let him that received it disclose it.