True happiness is...to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future.
However wretched a fellow-mortal may be, he is still a member of our common species.
He who blushes at riding in a rattletrap, will boast when he rides in style.
There is nothing wrong with changing a plan when the situation has changed.
Mercy often inflicts death.
No tree becomes rooted and sturdy unless many a wind assails it. For by its very tossing it tightens its grip and plants its roots more securely; the fragile trees are those that have grown in a sunny valley.