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

Choose as a guide one whom you will admire more when you see him act than when you hear him speak.

Just as I shall select my ship when I am about to go on a voyage, or my house when I propose to take a residence, so shall I choose my death when I am about to depart from life.

The whole duty of man is embraced in the two principles of abstinence and patience: temperance in prosperity, and patient courage in adversity.

Tranqility is a certain quality of mind, which no condition or fortune can either exalt or depress.

Every change of place becomes a delight.

Take away ambition and vanity, and where will be your heroes and patriots?