We are as answerable for what we give as for what we receive; nay, the misplacing of a benefit is worse than the not receiving of it; for the one is another person's fault, but the other is mine.

That is never too often repeated, which is never sufficiently learned.

Philosophy alone makes the mind invincible, and places us out of the reach of fortune, so that all her arrows fall short of us.

To forgive all is as inhuman as to forgive none

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

Simple is the language of truth.

All art is but imitation of nature.