It is impossible to imagine anything which better becomes a ruler than mercy.

Loyalty is the holiest good in the human heart.

Nothing is more disgraceful than that an old man should have nothing to show to prove that he has lived long, except his years.

True happiness is...to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future.

Full of men, vacant of friends.

Whereas a prolonged life is not necessarily better, a prolonged death is necessarily worse.

We suffer more often in imagination than in reality. [We must learn to control and focus the force of our imagination on the good, bright side so it is positive and constructive helping ourselves and others, rather than let its force focus on the bad, dark side so it is negative and destructive hurting ourselves and others!]