It is another’s fault if he be ungrateful, but it is mine if I do not give. To find one thankful man, I will oblige a great many that are not so.
You need a change of soul rather than a change of climate.
All things are cause for either laughter or weeping.
When an author is too meticulous about his style, you may presume that his mind is frivolous and his content flimsy.
Diligence is a very great help even to a mediocre intelligence. -Diligentia maximum etiam mediocris ingeni subsidium.
The whole duty of man is embraced in the two principles of abstinence and patience: temperance in prosperity, and patient courage in adversity.
Man is a reasoning Animal.
Sovereignty over any foreign land is insecure.
I had rather never receive a kindness than never bestow one.
With parsimony a little is sufficient; without it nothing is sufficient; but frugality makes a poor man rich.
The greater part of progress is the desire to progress.
The spirit in which a thing is given determines that in which the debt is acknowledged; it’s the intention, not the face-value of the gift, that’s weighed.
Fear drives the wretched to prayer.
Vice may be learnt, even without a teacher.
Light griefs are plaintive, but great ones are dumb.
That grief is light which can take counsel.
A well-governed appetite is a great part of liberty.
Laugh at your problems; everybody else does.
The important thing about a problem is not its solution, but the strength we gain in finding the solution.
Shall I tell you what the real evil is? To cringe to the things that are called evils, to surrender to them our freedom, in defiance of which we ought to face any suffering.