The greatest hindrance to living is expectancy, which depends upon tomorrow and wastes today

All cruelty springs from weakness.

True happiness is...to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future.

The man who spends his time choosing one resort after another in a hunt for peace and quiet will in every place he visits find something to prevent him from relaxing.

It is difficult to bring people to goodness with lessons, but it is easy to do so by example.

Accustom yourself to that which you bear ill, and you will bear it well.

Consider, when you are enraged at any one, what you would probably think if he should die during the dispute.