We become wiser by adversity; prosperity destroys our appreciation of the right." "True happiness is ... to enjoy the present" "It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are difficult.

Economy is too late when you are at the bottom of your purse.

Happy is the man who can endure the highest and lowest fortune. He who has endured such vicissitudes with equanimity has deprived misfortune of its power.

What a great blessing is a friend with a heart so trusty you may safely bury all your secrets in it.

There is nothing more despicable than an old man who has no other proof than his age to offer of his having lived long in the world.

Many things have fallen only to rise higher.

Not he who has little, but he whose wishes more, is poor.