The state of that man's mind who feels too intense an interest as to future events, must be most deplorable.

If God adds another day to our life, let us receive it gladly.

We are taught for the schoolroom, not for life.

Happy is the man who can endure the highest and lowest fortune. He who has endured such vicissitudes with equanimity has deprived misfortune of its power.

Remember, not one penny can we take with us into the unknown land.

There has not been any great talent without an element of madness. -Nullum magnum ingenium sine mixtura dementiae fuit

Men trust rather to their eyes than to their ears; the effect of precepts is therefore slow and tedious, whilst that of examples is summary and effectual.