When I think over what I have said, I envy dumb people.

To live is not a blessing, but to live well.

He, who holds out but a doubtful hope of succour to the afflicted, denies it.

To make a commencement requires a mental effort.

Wisdom allows nothing to be good that will not be so forever; no man to be happy but he that needs no other happiness than what he has within himself; no man to be great or powerful that is not master of himself.

Anger, if not restrained, is frequently more hurtful to us than the injury that provokes it.

A foolishness is inflicted with a hatred of itself.