True happiness is...to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future.

It is quality rather than quantity that matters.

Philosophy does not regard pedigree, she received Plato not as a noble, but she made him one.

Tis a human trait to hate one you have wronged

Happy he whoe'er, content with the common lot, with safe breeze hugs the shore, and, fearing to trust his skiff to the wider sea, with unambitious oar keeps close to the land.

Without an adversary prowess shrivels. We see how great and efficient it really is only when it shows by endurance what it is capable of.

What progress have I made? I am beginning to be my own friend. That is progress indeed