There is no person so severely punished, as those who subject themselves to the whip of their own remorse.

Add each day something to fortify you against poverty and death.

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

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

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.

It is for the superfluous things of life that men sweat.