Let not your mind run on what you lack as much as on what you have already.

A person's worth is measured by the worth of what he values.

Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.

It's silly to try to escape other people's faults. They are inescapable. Just try to escape your own.

People generally despise where they flatter, and cringe to those they would gladly overtop; so that truth and ceremony are two things.

Glory arrives too late when it comes only to one's ashes

Poverty is the mother of crime.