Religion worships God, while superstition profanes that worship.

Many men would have arrived at wisdom had they not believed themselves to have arrived there already.

We have not to talk, but to steer the vessel.

Epicurus says, "gratitude is a virtue that has commonly profit annexed to it." And where is the virtue that has not? But still the virtue is to be valued for itself, and not for the profit that attends it.

The pressure of adversity does not affect the mind of the brave man. It is more powerful than external circumstances.

It is the fault of youth that it cannot restrain its own impetuosity.

The bounty of nature is too little for the greedy person.