God has given some gifts to the whole human race, from which no one is excluded.
There is more heroism in self-denial than in deeds of arms.
What does reason demand of a man? A very easy thing-to live in accord with his own nature.
A king is he who has laid fear aside and the base longings of an evil heart; whom ambition unrestrained and the fickle favor of the reckless mob move not.
Persistent kindness conquers the ill-disposed.
The language of truth is unvarnished enough.
Not a soul takes thought how well he may live- only how long: yet a good life might be everybody’s, a long one can be nobody’s.
Life’s neither a good nor an evil: it’s a field for good and evil.
We are wrong in looking forward to death: in great measure it’s past already.
Certain laws have not been written, but they are more fixed than all the written laws.
Remember, not one penny can we take with us into the unknown land.
This is the law of benefits between men; the one ought to forget at once what was given, and the other ought never to forget what he has received.
It is sometimes pleasant even to act like a madman.
Our life’s a moment and less than a moment, but even this mite nature has mockingly humored with some appearance of a longer span.
The physician cannot prescribe by letter, he must feel the pulse.
Obedience is yielded more readily to one who commands gently.
No one’s so old that he mayn’t with decency hope for one more day.
Pleasure dies at the very moment when it charms us most.
No one loves his country for its size or eminence, but because it’s his own.
Let us not seek our disease out of ourselves; ’tis in us, and planted in our bowels; and the mere fact that we do not perceive ourselves to be sick, renders us more hard to be cured.