Confident because of our caution
We are not to give credit to the many, who say that none ought to be educated but the free; but rather to the philosophers, who say that the well-educated alone are free.
He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has.
Books are the training weights of the mind.
It is not events that disturb the minds of men, but the view they take of them.
If any be unhappy, let him remember that he is unhappy by reason of himself alone. For God hath made all men to enjoy felicity and constancy of good.