The great blessings of mankind are within us and within our reach; but we shut our eyes, and, like people in the dark, we fall foul upon the very thing we search for, without finding it.

The most imperious masters over their own servants are at the same time the most abject slaves to the servants of others.

The world itself is too small for the covetous.

Anyone can stop a man's life, but no one his death; a thousand doors open on to it.

Not he who has little, but he whose wishes more, is poor.

That is never too often repeated, which is never sufficiently learned.

Whenever you hold a fellow creature in distress, remember that he is a man.