Industry, perseverance, and frugality make fortune yield.

Be in general virtuous, and you will be happy. At least, you will by such conduct, stand the best chance for such consequences.

Human happiness comes not from infrequent pieces of good fortune, but from the small improvements to daily life.

Think of these things, whence you came, where you are going, and to whom you must account.

All would live long, but none would be old.

I believe that Man is not the most perfect Being but One, rather that as there are many Degrees of Beings his Inferiors, so there are many Degrees of Beings superior to him.

Where there's marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.