What difference does it make how much there is laid away in a man's safe or in his barns, how many head of stock he grazes or how much capital he puts out at interest, if he is always after what is another's and only counts what he has yet to get, never what he has already. You ask what is the proper limit to a person's wealth? First, having what is essential, and second, having what is enough.

Go on and increase in valor, O boy! this is the path to immortality.

Epileptics know by signs when attacks are imminent and take precautions accordingly; we must do the same in regard to anger

Some cures are worse than the dangers they combat.

I had rather never receive a kindness than never bestow one.

We all sorely complain of the shortness of time, and yet have much more than we know what to do with. Our lives are either spent in doing nothing at all, or in doing nothing to the purpose, or in doing nothing that we ought to do. We are always complaining that our days are few, and acting as though there would be no end of them.

When you die, it will not be because you are sick, but because you were alive.