You roll my log, and I will roll yours.
Refrain from following the example of those whose craving is for attention, not their own improvement.
If you are wise, You will mingle one thing with the other- Not hoping without doubt; Not doubting without hope.
Our words should aim not to please, but to help.
That which Fortune has not given, she cannot take away.
Some lack the fickleness to live as they wish and just live as they have begun.
The mind, unless it is pure and holy, cannot see God.
Men can be divided into 2 groups: one that goes ahead and achieves something, and one that comes after and criticizes.
No good thing is pleasant without friends to share it.
Luck is preparation multiplied by opportunity.
The young man must store up, the old man must use.
He shows a greater mind who does not restrain his laughter, than he who does not deny his tears.
We gain so much by quickness, and lose so much by slowness.
The poor are not the people with less, which is less desirable.
I am not born from a single place. My country is the whole world.
It is not poverty that we praise, it is the man whom poverty cannot humble or bend.
Reasons for anxiety will never be lacking, whether born of prosperity or of wretchedness; life pushes on in a succession of engrossments. We shall always pray for leisure...
They lose the day in expectation of the night, and the night in fear of the dawn.
Those things which make the infernal regions terrible, the darkness, the prison, the river of flaming fire, the judgment seat, are all a fable, with which the poets amuse themselves, and by them agitate us with vain terrors.
The wise man will always reflect concerning the quality not the quantity of life.