We feel and weigh soon enough what we suffer from others: but how much others suffer from us, of this we take no heed.
Learn to humble yourself, you are but earth and clay.
At the day of judgment we shall not be asked what we have read but what we have done.
Many deceive themselves, imagining they'll find happiness in change.
Remember, your prerogative is to govern, and not to serve the things of this world.
Occasions of adversity best discover how great virtue or strength each one hath. For occasions do not make a man frail, but they show what he is.