A grateful mind is a great mind which eventually attracts to itself great things.

Your dog is your only philosopher.

Be kind, for everyone is having a hard battle.

Mariner, do not ask whose tomb this may be, but go with good fortune: I wish you a kinder sea.

And what shall he suffer who slays him who of all men, as they say, is his own best friend? I mean the suicide, who deprives himself by violence of his appointed share of life. Not because the law of the state requires him. Nor yet under the compulsion of some painful and inevitable misfortune which has come upon him. Nor because he has had to suffer from irremediable and intolerable shame, but who from sloth or want of manliness imposes upon himself an unjust penalty.

No one knows whether death may not be the greatest good that can happen to man.

You need some knowledge to recognize knowledge, so where does the first knowledge come from?