Be more prompt to go to a friend in adversity than in prosperity.
If our early lessons of acceptance were as successful as our early lessons of anger, how much happier we would all be.
Reading well is one of the great pleasures that solitude can afford you.
Never despair; but if you do, work on in despair.
The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.
Men are equal; it is not birth but virtue that makes the difference.
He who labors diligently need never despair; for all things are accomplished by diligence and labor.