Sad people dislike the happy, and the happy the sad; the quick thinking the sedate, and the careless the busy and industrious.

One gains universal applause who mingles the useful with the agreeable, at once delighting and instructing the reader.

You traverse the world in search of happiness which is within the reach of every man. A contented mind confers it on all.

Make a good use of the present.

What does not wasting time change! The age of our parents, worse than that of our grandsires, has brought us forth more impious still, and we shall produce a more vicious progeny.

Anger is a brief lunacy.

Who knows whether the gods will add tomorrow to the present hour?