It should be our care not so much to live a long life as a satisfactory one.
It is the practice of the multitude to bark at eminent men, as little dogs do at strangers.
True joy is a serene and sober motion; and they are miserably out so that take laughing for rejoicing; the seat of it is within, and there is no cheerfulness like the resolutions of a brave mind.
Success gives the character of honesty to some classes of wickedness.
The mind that is anxious about future events is miserable.
Dead, we become the lumber of the world, And to that mass of matter shall be swept Where things destroyed with things unborn are kept.