Enjoy when you can, and endure when you must.

What life half gives a man, posterity gives entirely.

The desire to explain what is simple by what is complex, what is easy by what is difficult, is a calamity.

To like things like, whatever one may ail; There is certain help.

Talent is nurtured in solitude; character is formed in the stormy billows of the world.

Let us live in as small a circle as we will, we are either debtors or creditors before we have had time to look around.

Misunderstandings and neglect create more confusion in this world than trickery and malice. At any rate, the last two are certainly much less frequent.