The moment you're born you're done for.

It is easier to go down a hill than up, but the view is from the top.

Prepare to live by all means, but for Heaven's sake do not forget to live.

The chances are that you have already come to believe that happiness is unattainable. But men have attained it. And they have attained it by realizing that happiness does not spring from the procuring of physical or mental pleasure, but from the development of reason and the adjustment of conduct to principles.

Beware of undertaking too much at the start. Be content with quite a little. Allow for accidents. Allow for human nature, especially your own.

No mind, however loving, could bear to see plainly into all the recess of another mind.

I will never cease advising my friends and enemies to read poetry before anything.