It is only necessary to grow old to become more charitable and even indulgent. I see no fault committed by others that I have not committed myself.

Each has his own happiness in his hands, as the artist handles the rude clay he seeks to reshape it into a figure; yet it is the same with this art as with all others: only the capacity for it is innate; the art itself must be learned and painstakingly practiced.

True happiness springs from moderation.

Every man has enough power left to carry out that of which he is convinced.

Enjoy what you can, endure what you must.

What you have inherited from your fathers, earn over again for yourselves, or it will not be yours.

Where a man has a passion for meditating without the capacity of thinking, a particular idea fixes itself fast, and soon creates a mental disease.