It is the power of the mind to be unconquerable.

For what else is Nature but God and the Divine Reason that pervades the whole universe and all its parts.

The good things of prosperity are to be wished; but the good things that belong to adversity are to be admired.

Whereas a prolonged life is not necessarily better, a prolonged death is necessarily worse.

Full of men, vacant of friends.

Those who boast of their descent, brag on what they owe to others.

It is easier to grow in dignity than to make a start.