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

Life is the fire that burns and the sun that gives light. Life is the wind and the rain and the thunder in the sky. Life is matter and is earth, what is and what is not, and what beyond is in Eternity.

We pray for trifles without so much as a thought of the greatest blessings; and we are not ashamed many times, to ask God for that which we should blush to own to our neighbor.

We are as answerable for what we give as for what we receive; nay, the misplacing of a benefit is worse than the not receiving of it; for the one is another person's fault, but the other is mine.

There is a noble manner of being poor, and who does not know it will never be rich.

Know thyself; this is the great object.

Be not too hasty either with praise or blame; speak always as though you were giving evidence before the judgement-seat of the Gods.