I know well what I am fleeing from but not what I am in search of.

Laws are often made by fools, and even more often by men who fail in equity because they hate equality: but always by men, vain authorities who can resolve nothing.

We must learn to suffer what we cannot evade; our life, like the harmony of the world, is composed of contrary things, and one part is no less necessary than the other.

Have you known how to take rest? You have done more than he who hath taken empires and cities.

Taking it all in all, I find it is more trouble to watch after money than to get it.

Happiness involves working toward meaningful goals.

Tis so much to be a king, that he only is so by being so.