True happiness is to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future, not to amuse ourselves with either hopes or fears but to rest satisfied with what we have, which is sufficient, for he that is so wants nothing.

Unhappy is the man, though he rule the world, who doesn't consider himself supremely blessed.

It is the sign of a great mind to dislike greatness, and prefer things in measure to things in excess.

Courage is a scorner of things which inspire fear.

No evil propensity of the human heart is so powerful that it may not be subdued by discipline.

All art is an imitation of nature.

No evil is without its compensation ... it is not the loss itself, but the estimate of the loss, that troubles us.