“Men often bear little grievances with less courage than they do large misfortunes.”

Beware of a wolf in sheep’s clothing.

A dog used to run up quietly to the heels of everyone he met, and to bite them without notice.

Expect no reward when you serve the wicked, and be thankful if you escape injury for your pain

Our mere anticipations of life outrun its realities.

Better be wise by the misfortunes of others than by your own.

Servants don’t know a good master till they have served a worse.

Labour is the source of every blessing.

Beware lest you lose the substance by grasping at the shadow.

Notoriety is often mistaken for fame.

Little friends may prove great friends.

Those who suffer most cry out the least.

Adversity tests the sincerity of friends.

Servants don’t know a good master till they have served a worse.

Labour is the source of every blessing.

Beware lest you lose the substance by grasping at the shadow.

Notoriety is often mistaken for fame.

Courage conquers all things: it even gives strength to the body.

Happy are those who dare courageously to defend what they love.

Every child comes with the message that God is not yet discouraged of man.

Of course this chattering diary is a facade, the literary equivalent of the everyday smiling face which hides the inward ravages of jealousy, remorse, fear and the consciousness of irretrievable moral failure. Yet such pretenses are not only consolations but may even be productive of a little ersatz courage.

You’re an intelligent person of great moral character who has taken a very courageous stand. I’m an intelligent person with no moral character at all, so I’m in an ideal position to appreciate it.

No sane man is unafraid in battle, but discipline produces in him a form of vicarious courage.

Wine gives courage and makes men more apt for passion.

It requires more courage to suffer than to die.