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

Dead, we become the lumber of the world, And to that mass of matter shall be swept Where things destroyed with things unborn are kept.

There is nothing the wise man does reluctantly.

Where reason fails, time oft has worked a cure.

Human affairs are like a chess-game: only those who do not take it seriously can be called good players. Life is like an earthen pot: only when it is shattered, does it manifest its emptiness.

No action will be considered blameless, unless the will was so, for by the will the act was dictated.

I was not born for one corner. The whole world is my native land.