He who looks for advantage out of friendship strips it all of its nobility.

We should every night call ourselves to an account: What infirmity have I mastered today? What passions opposed! What temptation resisted? What virtue acquired?

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

It is a great thing to know the season for speech and the season for silence.

Let us be brave in the face of adversity.

What you think about yourself is much more important than what others think of you.

Unhappy is the man, though he rule the world, who doesn't consider himself supremely blessed. In order to consider himself supremely blessed he must deeply understand that things could be much worse but aren't! To not do that is to always be less happy than he could be.