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

Just as I shall select my ship when I am about to go on a voyage, or my house when I propose to take a residence, so shall I choose my death when I am about to depart from life.

What need is there to weep over parts of life? The whole of it calls for tears.

It is essential to make oneself used to putting up with a little. Even the wealthy and the well provided are continually met and frustrated by difficult times and situations. It is in no man's power to have whatever he wants; but he has it in his power not to wish for what he hasn't got, and cheerfully make the most of the things that do come his way.

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.

It is not poverty that we praise, it is the man whom poverty cannot humble or bend.

Successful villany is called virtue.