Let us not seek our disease out of ourselves; 'tis in us, and planted in our bowels; and the mere fact that we do not perceive ourselves to be sick, renders us more hard to be cured.

If a man does not know to what port he is steering, no wind is favorable to him. Ignoranti quem portum petat, nullus suus ventus est.

A benefit consists not in what is done or given, but in the intention of the giver or doer.

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

The greatest loss of time is delay and expectation, which depend upon the future. We let go the present, which we have in our power, and look forward to that which depends upon chance, and so relinquish a certainty for an uncertainty.

Who shrinks from knowledge of his calamities but aggravates his fear; troubles half seen, shall torture all the more.

You roll my log, and I will roll yours.