Let unswerving integrity be your watchword.

Fear cannot be without hope nor hope without fear.

It is usually the case with most men that their nature is so constituted that they pity those who fare badly and envy those who fare well.

The world would be happier if men had the same capacity to be silent that they have to speak.

If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.

He who wishes to revenge injuries by reciprocal hatred will live in misery. But he who endeavors to drive away hatred by means of love, fights with pleasure and confidence; he resists equally one or many men, and scarcely needs at all the help of fortune. Those whom he conquers yield joyfully

In so far as the mind sees things in their eternal aspect, it participates in eternity.