“There is no misfortune, but to bear it nobly is good fortune.”

“It is a shame for the soul to be first to give way in this life, when thy body does not give way.”

“The honest and good man ought to be exactly like a man who smells strong, so that the bystander as soon as he comes near him must smell whether he choose or not.”

“A man's happiness,-to do the things proper to man.”

“The constant recollection of death is the test of human conduct.”

“Though Fortune's malice overthrow my state,My mind exceeds the compass of her wheel.”

“Laughing faces do not mean that there is absence of sorrow!But it means that they have the ability to deal with it”

“There is an invisible strength within us; when it recognizes two opposing objects of desire, it grows stronger.”