» The reward of suffering is experience.
» It is easy when we are in prosperity to give advice to the afflicted.
» It is in the character of very few men to honor without envy a friend who has prospered.
» He who goes unenvied shall not be admired.
» Memory is the mother of all wisdom.
» And even in our sleep pain that cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart, and in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom to us by the awful grace of God.
» Call no man happy till he is dead.
» Who, except the gods, can live time through forever without any pain?
» The man whose authority is recent is always stern.
» There is no sickness worse for me than words that to be kind must lie.