Extremely foolish advice is likely to be uttered by those who are looking at the laboring vessel from the land.

Experience is the extract of suffering.

It has been said with some meaning that if men would but rest in silence, they might always hear the music of the spheres.

The world will tolerate many vices, but not their diminutives.

It is in length of patience, endurance and forbearance that so much of what is good in mankind and womankind is shown.

I do not know any way so sure of making others happy as of being so oneself, to begin with.

Those who never philosophized until they met with disappointments, have mostly become disappointed philosophers