The shortest road to wealth lies in the contempt of wealth.

Life is never incomplete if it is an honorable one. At whatever point you leave life, if you leave it in the right way, it is whole.

We must take care to live not merely a long life, but a full one; for living a long life requires only good fortune, but living a full life requires character. Long is the life that is fully lived; it is fulfilled only when the mind supplies its own good qualities and empowers itself from within.

There are more things to alarm us than to harm us, and we suffer more often in apprehension than reality.

Nature does not turn out her work according to a single pattern; she prides herself upon her power of variation.

Where fear is, happiness is not.

Nothing becomes so offensive so quickly as grief. When fresh it finds someone to console it, but when it becomes chronic, it is ridiculed and rightly.