Virtue is the health of the soul.
A man who shows no defect is a fool or a hypocrite, whom we should mistrust. There are defects so bound to fine qualities that they announce them,--defects which it is well not to correct.
Think of the ills from which you are exempt.
TIME and truth are friends, though there are many moments hostile to truth.
Misery is almost always the result of thinking.
Old age was naturally more honored in times when people could not know much more than what they had seen.