“It is a good thing to be rich and strong, but it is a better thing to be loved.”

“The company of just and righteous men is better than wealth and a rich estate.”

“There is one thing alone that stands the brunt of life throughout its course; a quiet conscience.”

“Arm yourself, my heart: the thing that you must do is fearful, yet inevitable.”

“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.”

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

“The good and wise lead quite lives”