To be always fortunate, and to pass through life with a soul that has never known sorrow, is to be ignorant of one half of nature.

Whenever the speech is corrupted so is the mind.

It is remarkable that Providence has given us all things for our advantage near at hand; but iron, gold, and silver, being both the instruments of blood and slaughter and the price of it, nature has hidden in the bowels of the earth.

No evil is without its compensation. The less money, the less trouble; the less favor, the less envy. Even in those cases which put us out of wits, it is not the loss itself, but the estimate of the loss that troubles us.

We should live as if we were in public view, and think, too, as if someone could peer into the inmost recesses of our hearts-which someone can!

Men practice war; beasts do not.

Not how long, but how well you have lived is the main thing.