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

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

Malice drinks one-half of its own poison.

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

All art is an imitation of nature.

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.