“Fortune truly helps those who are of good judgement.”

“And so my thoughts have lead me to believe that childless men and women lead lives more fortunate than those with sons and daughters.”

“God helps him who strives hard.”

“That mortal is a fool who, prospering, thinks his life has any strong foundation; since our fortune's course of action is the reeling way a madman takes, and no one person is ever happy all the time.”

“There is in the worst of fortune the best of chances for a happy change.”

“Human misery must somewhere have a stop; there is no wind that always blows a storm; great good fortune comes to failure in the end. All is change; all yields its place and goes; to persevere, trusting in what hopes he has, is courage in a man. The coward despairs.”

“When a good man is hurt, all who would be called good must suffer with him.”