Learn to be pleased with everything...because it could always be worse, but isn't!

The superstitious man wishes he did not believe in gods, as the atheist does not, but fears to disbelieve in them.

The first evil those who are prone to talk suffer, is that they hear nothing.

It is no great wonder if in long process of time, while fortune takes her course hither and thither, numerous coincidences should spontaneously occur. If the number and variety of subjects to be wrought upon be infinite, it is all the more easy for fortune, with such an abundance of material, to effect this similarity of results.

When malice is joined to envy, there is given forth poisonous and feculent matter, as ink from the cuttle-fish.

To make no mistakes is not in the power of man; but from their errors and mistakes the wise and good learn wisdom for the future.

Democritus said, words are but the shadows of actions.