Be careful to leave your sons well instructed rather than rich, for the hopes of the instructed are better than the wealth of the ignorant.

Remember that you are an actor in a play, and that the Playwright chooses the manner of it: If he wants you to act a poor man you must act the part with all your powers; and so if your part be a cripple or a magistrate or a plain man. For your business is to act the character that is given you and act it well. The choice of the cast is Another's.

If you seek Truth, you will not seek to gain a victory by every possible means; and when you have found Truth, you need not fear being defeated.

Circumstances don't make the man, they only reveal him to himself.

Everything has two handles,-one by which it may be borne; another by which it cannot.

To a reasonable creature, that alone is insupportable which is unreasonable; but everything reasonable may be supported.

Nothing is in reality either pleasant or unpleasant by nature but all things become so through habit