No man is free who is a slave to the flesh.

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.

Other men's sins are before our eyes; our own are behind our backs.

Be silent as to services you have rendered, but speak of favours you have received.

Not how long, but how well you have lived is the main thing.

We are mad, not only individually, but nationally. We check manslaughter and isolated murders; but what of war and the much-vaunted crime of slaughtering whole peoples?

Economy is in itself a great source of revenue.