Remember that you ought to behave in life as you would at a banquet. As something is being passed around it comes to you; stretch out your hand, take a portion of it politely. It passes on; do not detain it. Or it has not come to you yet; do not project your desire to meet it, but wait until it comes in front of you. So act toward children, so toward a wife, so toward office, so toward wealth.

The origin of sorrow is this: to wish for something that does not come to pass.

Men are not afraid of things, but of how they view them.

If a man is unhappy, remember that his unhappiness is his own fault, for God made all men to be happy.

Let no man think that he is loved by any who loveth none.

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

He who is not happy with little will never be happy with much.