The willing, destiny guides them; the unwilling, destiny drags them.

If you live according to nature, you never will be poor; if according to the world's caprice, you will never be rich.

It is safer to offend certain men than it is to oblige them; for as proof that they owe nothing they seek recourse in hatred.

We never reflect how pleasant it is to ask for nothing.

A consciousness of wrongdoing is the first step to salvation...you have to catch yourself doing it before you can correct it.

Praise thyself never.

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