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.

You are your choices.

There is about wisdom a nobility and magnificence in the fact that she doesn't just fall to a person's lot, that each man owes her to his own efforts, that one doesn't go to anyone other than oneself to find her.

Death's the discharge of our debt of sorrow.

I don’t mind citing a bad author if the line is good.

Good sides to adversity are best admired at a distance.

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