One who's our friend is fond of us; one who's fond of us isn't necessarily our friend.

Nothing is more disgraceful than that an old man should have nothing to show to prove that he has lived long, except his years.

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

Nature has made us passive, and to suffer is our lot. While we are in the flesh every man has his chain and his clog; only it is looser and lighter to one man than to another, and he is more at ease who takes it up and carries it than he who drags it.

Courage leads to heaven; fear leads to death.

What is more insane than to vent on senseless things the anger that is felt towards men?

It is a common thing to screw up justice to the pitch of an injury. A man may be over-righteous, and why not over-grateful, too? There is a mischievous excess that borders so close upon ingratitude that it is no easy matter to distinguish the one from the other; but, in regard that there is good-will in the bottom of it, however distempered; for it is effectually but kindness out of the wits.