Principles are like seeds; they are little things which do much good, if the mind that receives them has the right attitudes.

It is the mind that makes us rich and happy, in what condition soever we are, and money signifies no more to it than it does to the gods.

Fortune's not content with knocking a man down; she sends him spinning head over heels, crash upon crash.

As fate is inexorable, and not to be moved either with tears or reproaches, an excess of sorrow is as foolish as profuse laughter; while, on the other hand, not to mourn at all is insensibility.

Drunkenness is nothing but voluntary madness.

He who is penitent is almost innocent.

It is a tedious thing to be always beginning life; they live badly who always begin to live.