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.
Whom the dawn sees proud, evening sees prostrate.
The wise man will always reflect concerning the quality not the quantity of life.
After death there is nothing.
Familiarity reduces the greatness of things.
All my life I have been seeking to climb out of the pit of my besetting sins and I cannot do it and I never will unless a hand is let down to draw me up.
We are all sinful. Therefore whatever we blame in another we shall find in our own bosoms.
The Best sign of Wisdom is the consistency between the words and deeds...
When one is friend on himself, also is friend of everybody...