See how many are better off than you are, but consider how many are worse.

A great step toward independence is a good-humoured stomach.

The poor are not the people with less, which is less desirable

No one can wear a mask for very long.

An action will not be right unless the will be right; for from thence is the action derived. Again, the will will not be right unless the disposition of the mind be right; for from thence comes the will.

He that makes himself famous by his eloquence, justice or arms illustrates his extraction, let it be never so mean; and gives inestimable reputation to his parents. We should never have heard of Sophroniscus, but for his son, Socrates; nor of Ariosto and Gryllus, if it had not been for Xenophon and Plato.

Drunkenness is nothing but a self-induced state of insanity.