Everything hangs on one's thinking.

Poverty with joy isn't poverty at all. The poor man is not one who has little, but one who hankers after more.

The pressure of adversity does not affect the mind of the brave man. It is more powerful than external circumstances.

Those who pass their lives in foreign travel find they contract many ties of hospitality, but form no friendships.

Men learn while they teach.

The things which we hold in our hands, which we see with our eyes, and which our avarice hugs, are transitory, they may be taken from us by ill luck or by violence; but a kindness lasts even after the loss of that by means of which it was bestowed; for it is a good deed, which no violence can undo.

Laugh at your problems; everybody else does.