To lose a friend is the greatest of all evils, but endeavour rather to rejoice that you possessed him than to mourn his loss.

A good character is the only guarantee of everlasting, carefree happiness.

Sadness usually results from one of the following causes either when a man does not succeed, or is ashamed of his success.

Virtue is that perfect good, which is the complement of a happy life; the only immortal thing that belongs to mortality.

Wisdom allows nothing to be good that will not be so forever; no man to be happy but he that needs no other happiness than what he has within himself; no man to be great or powerful that is not master of himself.

He who repents of having sinned is almost innocent.

It is remarkable that Providence has given us all things for our advantage near at hand; but iron, gold, and silver, being both the instruments of blood and slaughter and the price of it, nature has hidden in the bowels of the earth.