Life's like a play; it's not the length, but the excellence of the acting that matters.

It is a tedious thing to be always beginning life; they live badly who always begin to live.

He who asks with timidity invites a refusal.

For many men, the acquisition of wealth does not end their troubles, it only changes them.

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. The greatest blessings of mankind are within us and within our reach. A wise man is content with his lot, whatever it may be, without wishing for what he has not.

For men in a state of freedom had thatch for their shelter, while slavery dwells beneath marble and gold.

We should give as we would receive, cheerfully, quickly, and without hesitation; for there is no grace in a benefit that sticks to the fingers.