It is an aspect of all happiness to suppose that we deserve it.

In bringing up a child, think of its old age.

To reason, to argue. It is to walk with crutches in search of the truth. We come to it with a leap.

How many people eat, drink, and get married; buy, sell, and build; make contracts and attend to their fortune; have friends and enemies, pleasures and pains, are born, grow up, live and die - but asleep!

We should do good whenever we can and do kindness at all times, for at all times we can.

Happy is the man who can do only one thing; in doing it, he fulfills his destiny.

History needs distance, perspective. Facts and events which are too well attested cease, in some sort, to be malleable.