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.

Greed's worst point is its ingratitude.

Let us bear with magnanimity whatever it is needful for us to bear.

Death either destroys or unhusks us. If it means liberation, better things await us when our burden s gone: if destruction, nothing at all awaits us; blessings and curses are abolished.

Why do people not confess vices? It is because they have not yet laid them aside. It is a waking person only who can tell their dreams.

Cling tooth and nail to the following rule: Not to give in to adversity, never to trust prosperity, and always to take full note of fortune's habit of behaving just as she pleases, treating her as if she were actually going to do everything it is in her power to do. Whatever you have been expecting for some time comes as less of a shock.

Loyalty is the holiest good in the human heart.