Poverty with joy isn't poverty at all. The poor man is not one who has little, but one who hankers after more.

With parsimony a little is sufficient; without it nothing is sufficient; but frugality makes a poor man rich.

What's the good of dragging up sufferings which are over, of being unhappy now just because you were then.

Expecting is the greatest impediment to living. In anticipation of tomorrow, it loses today.

Life's neither a good nor an evil: it's a field for good and evil.

To err is human. To repeat error is of the Devil.

No man can live happily who regards himself alone, who turns everything to his own advantage. Thou must live for another, if thou wishest to live for thyself.