You can never learn anything that you did not already know
There is more both of beauty and of raison d'etre in the works of nature- than in those of art.
A good man may make the best even of poverty and disease, and the other ills of life; but he can only attain happiness under the opposite conditions
Education and morals make the good man, the good statesman, the good ruler.
We laugh at that which we cannot bear to face.
Happiness is prosperity combined with virtue.