Whatever is to make us better and happy God has placed either openly before us or close to us.
Fate rules the affairs of men, with no recognizable order.
Nothing costs so much as what is bought by prayers.
He who boasts of his descent, praises the deed of another.
Who-only let him be a man and intent upon honor-is not eager for the honorable ordeal and prompt to assume perilous duties? To what energetic man is not idleness a punishment?
Leisure without study is death, and the grave of a living man.