Let nothing be done in your life, which will cause you fear if it becomes known to your neighbor.

You don't develop courage by being happy in your relationships everyday. You develop it by surviving difficult times and challenging adversity.

Pleasure is our first and kindred good. It is the starting point of every choice and of every aversion, and to it we always come back, inasmuch as we make feeling the rule by which to judge of every good thing.

I was not; I have been; I am not; I do not mind.

The mind that is much elevated and insolent with prosperity, and cast down with adversity, is generally abject and base.

Of all the gifts that wise Providence grants us to make life full and happy, friendship is the most beautiful.

Fortune seldom troubles the wise man. Reason has controlled his greatest and most important affairs, controls them throughout his life, and will continue to control them.