We ought to take outdoor walks, to refresh and raise our spirits by deep breathing in the open air.

Economy is too late when you are at the bottom of your purse.

He is ungrateful who denies that he has received a kindness which has been bestowed upon him; he is ungrateful who conceals it; he is ungrateful who makes no return for it; most ungrateful of all is he who forgets it.

The mind is a matter over every kind of fortune; itself acts in both ways, being the cause of its own happiness and misery.

It is remarkable that Providence has given us all things for our advantage near at hand; but iron, gold, and silver, being both the instruments of blood and slaughter and the price of it, nature has hidden in the bowels of the earth.

When one is friend on himself, also is friend of everybody.

Hardly a man will you find who could live with his door open.