Retire into yourself as much as possible. Associate with people who are likely to improve you. Welcome those whom you are capable of improving. The process is a mutual one. People learn as they teach.

What's the good of dragging up sufferings which are over, of being unhappy now just because you were then.

The proper amount of wealth is that which neither descends to poverty nor is far distant from it.

Consider an enemy may become a friend.

The deep waters of time will flow over us: only a few men of genius will lift a head above the surface, and though doomed eventually to pass into the same silence, will fight against oblivion and for a long time hold their own.

No man is born wise; but wisdom and virtue require a tutor; though we can easily learn to be vicious without a master.

He, who holds out but a doubtful hope of succour to the afflicted, denies it.