If you wish to be loved, love.
What difference does it make how much you have? What you do not have amounts to much more.
In a moment the ashes are made, but a forest is a long time growing.
If you sit in judgment, investigate, if you sit in supreme power, sit in command.
Authority founded on injustice is never of long duration.
There is as much greatness of mind in acknowledging a good turn, as in doing it.
See how many are better off than you are, but consider how many are worse.
Voyage, travel, and change of place impart vigor.
Everywhere is nowhere. When a person spends all his time in foreign travel, he ends by having many acquaintances, but no friends.
Time discovers truth.
Sadness usually results from one of the following causes either when a man does not succeed, or is ashamed of his success.
No one can be happy who has been thrust outside the pale of truth. And there are two ways that one can be removed from this realm: by lying, or by being lied to.
Our fears are always more numerous than our dangers.
The articulate, trained voice is more distracting than mere noise.
Nothing is so wretched or foolish as to anticipate misfortunes. What madness it is to be expecting evil before it comes.
It is easier to exclude harmful passions than to rule them, and to deny them admittance than to control them after they have been admitted.
The mind that is anxious about future events is miserable.
He that does good to another does good also to himself.
Do everything as in the eye of another.
The great pilot can sail even when his canvass is rent.