Nothing can come out of nothing, any more than a thing can go back to nothing.

Everything is but what we think it.

How much time he saves who does not look to see what his neighbor says or does or thinks.

It is a ridiculous thing for a man not to fly from his own badness, which is indeed possible, but to fly from other men's badness, which is impossible.

To my great-grandfather I owed the advice to dispense with the education of the schools and have good masters at home instead - and to realize that no expense should be grudged for this purpose.

Keep constantly in mind in how many things you yourself have witnessed changes already. The universe is change, life is understanding.

No one wearies of benefits received.