One hand washes the other.

There's one blessing only, the source and cornerstone of beatitude: confidence in self.

If sensuality were happiness, beasts were happier than men; but human felicity is lodged in the soul, not in the flesh.

Time is the greatest remedy for anger.

A man can refrain from wanting what he has not and cheerfully make the best of a bird in the hand.

Light troubles speak; the weighty are struck dumb.

Set aside a certain number of days, during which you shall be content with the scantiest and cheapest fare, with course and rough dress, saying to yourself the while: " Is this the condition that I feared?"