What is permissible is not always honorable.

Honor is the reward of virtue.

Six mistakes mankind keeps making century after century: Believing that personal gain is made by crushing others; Worrying about things that cannot be changed or corrected; Insisting that a thing is impossible because we cannot accomplish it; Refusing to set aside trivial preferences; Neglecting development and refinement of the mind; Attempting to compel others to believe and live as we do.

Men do not realize how great an income thrift is.

If you possess a library and a garden, you have everything you need. (translation from the French) Si vous possedez une bibliotheque et un jardin, vous avez tout ce qu'il vous faut.

A perverse temper and fretful disposition will make any state of life whatsoever unhappy.

Nothing is so unbelievable that oratory cannot make it acceptable.