To have more, you must first be more.

Character, in great and little things, means carrying through what you feel able to do.

The most happy man is he who knows how to bring into relation the end and beginning of his life.

Take care of your body with steadfast fidelity. The soul must see through these eyes alone, and if they are dim, the whole world is clouded.

Great possessions and great want of them are both strong temptations.

Some books seem to have been written, not to teach us anything, but to let us know that the author has known something.

A man may twist as he pleases, and do what he pleases, but he inevitably comes back to the track to which nature has destined him.