Prosperity asks for fidelity; adversity exacts it.

Lack of desire is the greatest riches.

What madness it is for a man to starve himself to enrich his heir, and so turn a friend into an enemy! For his joy at your death will be proportioned to what you leave him.

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

It is a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness. As is a tale, so is life: not how long it is, but how good it is, is what matters.

A lesson that is never learned can never be too often taught.

Nature does not reveal all her secrets at once. We imagine we are initiated in her mysteries: we are, as yet, but hanging around her outer courts.