Tranqility is a certain quality of mind, which no condition or fortune can either exalt or depress.

He invites the commission of a crime who does not forbid it, when it is in his power to do so.

You must live for another if you wish to live for yourself.

While the fates permit, live happily; life speeds on with hurried step, and with winged days the wheel of the headlong year is turned.

He who is brave is free.

No man is born wise; but wisdom and virtue require a tutor; though we can easily learn to be vicious without a master.

The state of that man's mind who feels too intense an interest as to future events, must be most deplorable.