I, who have never willfully pained another, have no business to pain myself.

Be content with what you are, and wish not change; nor dread your last day, nor long for it.

The main thing we were made for is to work with others.

He that lives alone lives in danger; society avoids many dangers.

Never esteem anything as of advantage to you that will make you break your word or lose your self-respect.

In the life of a man, his time is but a moment, his being an incessant flux, his sense a dim rushlight, his body a prey of worms, his soul an unquiet eddy, his fortune dark, his fame doubtful. In short, all that is body is as coursing waters, all that is of the soul as dreams and vapors.

The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing.