He who forbids not sin when he may, commands it

Cling tooth and nail to the following rule: Not to give in to adversity, never to trust prosperity, and always to take full note of fortune's habit of behaving just as she pleases, treating her as if she were actually going to do everything it is in her power to do. Whatever you have been expecting for some time comes as less of a shock.

The first proof of a well-ordered mind is to be able to pause and linger within itself.

Dangerous is wrath concealed. Hatred proclaimed doth lose its chance of wreaking vengeance.

Nothing will ever please me, no matter how excellent or beneficial, if I must retain the knowledge of it to myself. . . . . . No good thing is pleasant to possess, without friends to share it.

Life's neither a good nor an evil: it's a field for good and evil.

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.