“There is peace and rest and comfort in sorrow”

“Sorrows gather around great souls as storms do around mountains; but, like them, they break the storm and purify the air of the plain beneath them”

“Whoever, fleeing marriage and the sorrows that women cause, does not wish to wed comes to a deadly old age. ”

“The first pressure of sorrow crushes out from our hearts the best wine; afterwards the constant weight of it brings forth bitterness, the taste and strain from the lees of the vat”

“Noble souls, through dust and heat, rise from disaster and defeat the stronger”

“At painful times, when composition is impossible and reading is not enough, grammars and dictionaries are excellent for distraction”