What we do in life ripples in eternity.

The wrongdoer is often the person who left something undone, rather than the person who has done something

Both happiness and unhappiness depend on perception

We must press on then, in haste; not simply because every hour brings us nearer to death, but because even before then our powers of perception and comprehension begin to deteriorate.

Put an end once and for all to this discussion of what a good person should be, and be one.

To no man make yourself a boon companion: Your joy will be less but less will be your grief

A noble man compares and estimates himself by an idea which is higher than himself; and a mean man, by one lower than himself. The one produces aspiration; the other ambition, which is the way in which a vulgar man aspires.