The really unhappy person is the one who leaves undone what they can do, and starts doing what they don't understand; no wonder they come to grief.

It is much easier to meet with error than to find truth; error is on the surface, and can be more easily met with; truth is hid in great depths, the way to seek does not appear to all the world.

As beauteous is the world, and many a joy Floats through its wide dominion. But, alas, When we would seize the winged good, it flies.

Riches amassed in haste will diminish; but those collected by hand and little by little will multiply.

America, you have it better than our continent, the old one.

None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.

The more one knows, the more one comprehends, the more one realizes that everything turns in a circle.