It is not so much our friends' help that helps us, as the confidence of their help.

Of all the things which wisdom provides to make us entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship.

If God listened to the prayers of men, all men would quickly have perished: for they are forever praying for evil against one another.

The greater the difficulty, the more the glory in surmounting it.

Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for.