If sensuality were happiness, beasts were happier than men; but human felicity is lodged in the soul, not in the flesh.

The person you are matters more than the place to which you go.

All that lies betwixt the cradle and the grave is uncertain.

True happiness is to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future, not to amuse ourselves with either hopes or fears but to rest satisfied with what we have, which is sufficient, for he that is so wants nothing. The greatest blessings of mankind are within us and within our reach. A wise man is content with his lot, whatever it may be, without wishing for what he has not.

What a vile and abject thing is man if he do not raise himself above humanity.

The man who while he gives thinks of what he will get in return, deserves to be deceived.

A great step towards independence is a good-humored stomach, one that is willing to endure rough treatment.