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.

It is wrong not to give a hand to the fallen. This right is common to the whole human race.

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

Let us train our minds to desire what the situation demands.

It is not death we fear, but the thought of it.

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

No one is better born than another, unless they are born with better abilities and a more amiable disposition.