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.

We ought to take outdoor walks, to refresh and raise our spirits by deep breathing in the open air.

Choose as a guide one whom you will admire more when you see him act than when you hear him speak.

A great, a good, and a right mind is a kind of divinity lodged in flesh, and may be the blessing of a slave as well as of a prince: it came from heaven, and to heaven it must return; and it is a kind of heavenly felicity, which a pure and virtuous mind enjoys, in some degree, even upon earth.

Drunkenness is nothing but voluntary madness.

If you expect the wise man to be as angry as the baseness of crimes requires, then he must not only be angry but go insane.

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.