It is to the interest of the commonwealth of mankind that there should be someone who is unconquered, someone against whom fortune has no power.

The deferring of anger is the best antidote to anger.

Every one has time if he likes. Business runs after nobody: people cling to it of their own free will and think that to be busy is a proof of happiness.

Greatness stands upon a precipice, and if prosperity carries a man never so little beyond his poise, it overbears and dashes him to pieces.

The first proof of a well-ordered mind is to be able to pause and linger within itself.

It is not the man who has little, but he who desires more, that is poor.

A hungry people listens not to reason, not cares for justice, nor is bent by any prayers.