He who graduates the harshest school, succeeds.

The peoples of the Mediterranean began to emerge from barbarism when they learned to cultivate the olive and the vine.

Self-control is the chief element in self-respect, and respect of self, in turn, is the chief element in courage.

The superior gratification derived from the use and contemplation of costly and supposedly beautiful products is, commonly, in great measure a gratification of our sense of costliness masquerading under the name of beauty.

He who graduates the harshest school, succeeds.

It is useless to attack men who could not be controlled even if conquered, while failure would leave us in an even worse position.

Mankind apparently find it easier to drive away adversity than to retain prosperity.