Nothing is our except time.

What is the proper limit for wealth? It is, first, to have what is necessary; and, second, to have what is enough.

A quarrel is quickly settled when deserted by one party; there is no battle unless there be two.

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

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

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

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.