There is this difference between happiness and wisdom; he that thinks himself the happiest man, really is so; but he that thinks himself the wisest, is generally the greatest fool.

All adverse and depressing influences can be overcome, not by fighting, by by rising above them.

The sun should not set upon our anger, neither should he rise upon our confidence. We should forgive freely, but forget rarely. I will not be revenged, and this I owe to my enemy; but I will remember, and this I owe to myself.

Some are cursed with the fullness of satiety; and how can they bear the ills of life when its very pleasures fatigue them?

Theories are private property, but truth is common stock.

The man of pleasure, by a vain attempt to be more happy than any man can be, is often more miserable than most men are.

It is with disease of the mind, as with those of the body; we are half dead before we understand our disorder, and half cured when we do.