The fool’s life is empty of gratitude and full of fears; its course lies wholly toward the future.

Some men spend their whole life furnishing for themselves the things proper to life without realizing that at our birth each of us was poured a mortal brew to drink.

Being happy is knowing how to be content with little

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

It is not the young man who should be considered fortunate but the old man who has lived well, because the young man in his prime wanders much by chance, vacillating in his beliefs, while the old man has docked in the harbor, having safeguarded his true happiness.

There is no such thing as justice in the abstract; it is merely a compact between men in their various relations with each other, in whatever circumstances they may be, that they will neither injure nor be injured.

Thanks be to blessed Nature that she has made what is necessary easy to obtain, and what is not easy unnecessary.