Friends Should Be Judged By Their Acts,

He Is Truly A Man Who Will Not Permit Himself To Be Unduly Elated When Fortune's Breeze Is Favorable, Or Cast Down When It Is Adverse.

In Adversity Assume The Countenance Of Prosperity, And In Prosperity Moderate The Temper And Desires.

He Will Have True Glory Who Despises It.

Present Sufferings Seem Far Greater To Men Than Those They Merely Dread.

The Army From Asia Introduced A Foreign Luxury To Rome; It Was Then The Meals Began To Require More Dishes And More Expenditure . . . The Cook, Who Had Up To That Time Been Employed As A Slave Of Low Price, Become Dear: What Had Been Nothing But A Metier Was Elevated To An Art.