Virtue does not consist in the absence of the passions, but in the control of them.
Experience makes more timid men than it does wise ones.
It's not only the most difficult thing to know one's self, but the most inconvenient.
Never teach your child to be cunning or you may be certain you will be one of the very first victims of his shrewdness.
Hunting after happiness is like hunting after a lost sheep in the wilderness--when you find it, the chances are that it is a skeleton.
Words are often seen hunting for an idea, but ideas are never seen hunting for words.