To become indignant at [people's] conduct is as foolish as to be angry with a stone because it rolls into your path. And with many people the wisest thing you can do, is to resolve to make use of those whom you cannot alter.

Reading is a mere makeshift for original thinking.

A good supply of resignation is of the first importance in providing for the journey of life.

A high degree of intellect tends to make a man unsocial.

It is in the treatment of trifles that a person shows what they are.

The greatest achievements of the human mind are generally received with distrust.

We seldom think of what we have but always of what we lack. Therefore, rather than grateful, we are bitter.