The mind that is anxious about future events is miserable.

Let us fight the battle-retreat from the things that attract us and rouse ourselves to meet the things that actually attack us.

No work is of such merit as to instruct from a mere cursory perusal.

If you are surprised at the number of our maladies, count our cooks.

We are mad, not only individually, but nationally. We check manslaughter and isolated murders; but what of war and the much-vaunted crime of slaughtering whole peoples?

Happy is the man who can endure the highest and lowest fortune. He who has endured such vicissitudes with equanimity has deprived misfortune of its power.

Let me therefore live as if every moment were to be my last.