Men Are Seldom Blessed With Good Fortune

Friendships Ought To Be Immortal, Hostilities Mortal.

Fortune Blinds Men When She Does Not Wish Them To Withstand The Violence Of Her Onslaughts.

The Study Of History Is The Best Medicine For A Sick Mind; For In History You Have A Record Of The Infinite Variety Of Human Experience Plainly Set Out For All To See; And In That Record You Can Find Yourself And Your Country Both Examples And Warnings; Fine Things To Take As Models, Base Things Rotten Through And Through, To Avoid.

The Troubles Which Have Come Upon Us Always Seem More Serious Than Those Which Are Only Threatening.

Toil And Pleasure, Dissimilar In Nature, Are Nevertheless United By A Certain Natural Bond.