What was hard to suffer is sweet to remember.

Straightforwardness and simplicity are in keeping with goodness. The things that are essential are acquired with little bother; it is the luxuries that call for toil and effort. To want simply what is enough nowadays suggests to people primitiveness and squalor.

The intellect must not be kept at consistent tension, but diverted by pastimes.... The mind must have relaxation, and will rise stronger and keener after recreation.

Our plans miscarry because they have no aim. When a man does not know what harbor he is making for, no wind is the right wind.

We suffer more in imagination than in reality.

The kind of solace that arises from having company in misery is spiteful.

Whenever you hold a fellow creature in distress, remember that he is a man.