Those unacquainted with the world take pleasure in intimacy with great men; those who are wiser fear the consequences.

Sovereign money procures a wife with a large fortune, gets a man credit, creates friends, stands in place of pedigree, and even of beauty.

That man lives happy and in command of himself, who from day to day can say I have lived. Whether clouds obscure, or the sun illumines the following day, that which is past is beyond recall.

Who then is free? The one who wisely is lord of themselves, who neither poverty, death or captivity terrify, who is strong to resist his appetites and shun honors, and is complete in themselves smooth and round like a globe

If things look badly to-day they may look better tomorrow.

Let him who has enough ask for nothing more.

No, but you're wrong now, and always will be.