To keep oneself safe does not mean to bury oneself.

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

The mind is slow to unlearn what it learnt early.

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

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 propensity of the human heart is so powerful that it may not be subdued by discipline.