He that does good to another does good also to himself, not only in the consequence but in the very act. For the consciousness of well-doing is in itself ample reward.

Refuse to let the thought of death bother you: nothing is grim when we have escaped that fear.

With parsimony a little is sufficient; without it nothing is sufficient; but frugality makes a poor man rich.

Now we are not merely to stick knowledge on to the soul: we must incorporate it into her; the soul should not be sprinkled with knowledge but steeped in it.

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.

The mind does not easily unlearn what it has been long in learning.

Behold a contest worthy of a god, a brave man matched in conflict with adversity.