As for old age, embrace and love it. It abounds with pleasure if you know how to use it. The gradually declining years are among the sweetest in a man's life, and I maintain that, even when they have reached the extreme limit, they have their pleasure still.

There are more people abusive to others than lie open to abuse themselves; but the humor goes round, and he that laughs at me today will have somebody to laugh at him tomorrow.

So live with an inferior as you would wish a superior to live with you.

Nature does not turn out her work according to a single pattern; she prides herself upon her power of variation.

A man who suffers or stresses before it is necessary, suffers more than is necessary

The path of precept is long, that of example short and effectual.

No evil is without its compensation.