It is easy enough to arouse in a listener a desire for what is honorable; for in every one of us nature has laid the foundations or sown the seeds of the virtues. We are born to them all, all of us, and when a person comes along with the necessary stimulus, then those qualities of the personality are awakened, so to speak, from their slumber.

It is not poverty that we praise, it is the man whom poverty cannot humble or bend.

Nothing is so wretched or foolish as to anticipate misfortunes. What madness it is to be expecting evil before it comes.

A great step toward independence is a good-humoured stomach.

Behold a contest worthy of a god, a brave man matched in conflict with adversity.

The highest duty and the highest proof of wisdom - that deed and word should be in accord.

Luck is preparation multiplied by opportunity.