One must steer, not talk.

Hesitation is the best cure for anger. The first blows of anger are heavy, but if it waits, it will think again.

Associate with people who are likely to improve you.

Happy he whoe'er, content with the common lot, with safe breeze hugs the shore, and, fearing to trust his skiff to the wider sea, with unambitious oar keeps close to the land.

That day which you fear as being the end of all things is the birthday of your eternity.

Full of men, vacant of friends.

That moderation which nature prescribes, which limits our desires by resources restricted to our needs, has abandoned the field; it has now come to this -- that to want only what is enough is a sign both of boorishness and of utter destitution.