Hunger is the mother of impatience and anger.

Indolent people, whatever taste they may have for society, seek eagerly for pleasure, and find nothing. They have an empty head and seared hearts.

Those beings only are fit for solitude who are like nobody, and are liked by nobody.

Thought and action are the redeeming features of our lives.

Laugh as loud as you please at your companion's wit; do not even smile at his folly.

The human mind, in proportion as it is deprived of external resources, sedulously labors to find within itself the means of happiness, learns to rely with confidence on its own exertions, and gains with greater certainty the power of being happy.

When ill news comes too late to be serviceable to your neighbor, keep it to yourself.