Nothing, to my way of thinking, is a better proof of a well-ordered mind than a man's ability to stop just where he is and pass some time in his own company.

A favor is to a grateful man delightful always; to an ungrateful man only once.

The greatest wealth is a poverty of desires.

Adversity finds at last the man whom she has often passed by.

Praise thyself never.

We should conduct ourselves not as if we ought to live for the body, but as if we could not live without it.

There is no satisfaction in any good without a companion.