Prosperity asks for fidelity; adversity exacts it.

The state of that man's mind who feels too intense an interest as to future events, must be most deplorable.

Laugh at your problems; everybody else does.

No man can live happily who regards himself alone, who turns everything to his own advantage. Thou must live for another, if thou wishest to live for thyself.

The great pilot can sail even when his canvass is rent.

It is one thing to remember, another to know. To remember is to safeguard something entrusted to the memory. But to know is to make each thing one's own, not depend on the text and always to look back to the teacher. "Zeno said this, Cleanthes said this." Let there be space between you and the book.

When one is friend on himself, also is friend of everybody.