Destiny waits alike for the free man as well as for him enslaved by another’s might.
Death is better, a milder fate than tyranny.
Words are the physicians of a mind diseased.
A prosperous fool is a grievous burden.
The reward of suffering is experience.
God ever works with those who work with will.
There is advantage in the wisdom won from pain.
Delay not to seize the hour!
Excessive fear is always powerless.
It is an easy thing for one whose foot is on the outside of calamity to give advice and to rebuke the sufferer.
Obedience is the mother of success and is wedded to safety.
In the lack of judgment great harm arises, but one vote cast can set right a house.
Time brings all things to pass.
Once to die is better than length of days in sorrow without end.
Old men, what are they? Fast fading the leaf, Three-footed they walk, yet frail as a child, As a dream set afloat in the daylight.
Bonds and the pangs of hunger are excellent prophet doctors for the wits.
Those who would learn must suffer. In our own despair, against our will, wisdom comes to us.
God loves to help him who strives to help himself.
Against necessity, against its strength, no one can fight and win.
Out of respect, a man must veil his words when talking with a woman, but with a man he can frankly say whatever’s on his mind.