“Education is an ornament for the prosperous, a refuge for the unfortunate.”

“Learning is an ornament in prosperity, a refuge in adversity, and a provision in old age.”

“In the day of prosperity we have many refuges to resort to; in the day of adversity, only one.”

“Nothing more than education advances the prosperity, the power, and the happiness of a nation. ”

“Valour, however unfortunate, commands great respect even from enemies: but the Romans despise cowardice, even though it be prosperous.”

“The first panacea for a mismanaged nation is inflation of the currency; the second is war. Both bring a temporary prosperity; both bring a permanent ruin. But both are the refuge of political and economic opportunists.”

“In prosperous times the mercantile classes often realize fortunes, which go far towards securing them against the future; but unfortunately the working classes, though they share in the general prosperity, do not share in it so largely as in the general adversity.”

“Make an island of yourself,
make yourself your refuge;
there is no other refuge.
Make truth your island,
make truth your refuge;
there is no other refuge.”

“Females choose; their choosiness is inherited; they prefer exaggerated ornaments; exaggerated ornaments are a burden to males.”

“An ornament and a safeguard.”
Decus et tutamen.