The entire world would perish, if pity were not to limit anger.

Do the best you can . . . enjoy the present . . . rest satisfied with what you have.

It is better to have useless knowledge than to know nothing.

The best cure for anger is delay.

Some there are that torment themselves afresh with the memory of what is past; others, again, afflict themselves with the apprehension of evils to come; and very ridiculously both - for the one does not now concern us, and the other not yet ... One should count each day as a separate life.

There are many things akin to highest deity that are still obscure. Some may be too subtle for our powers of comprehension, others imperceptible to us because such exalted majesty conceals itself in the holiest part of its sanctuary, forbidding access to any power save that of the spirit. How many heavenly bodies revolve unseen by human eye!

Speech is the mirror of the mind.