It is a proof of nobility of mind to despise injuries.

Poverty wants some, luxury many, and avarice all things.

A hungry people listens not to reason, not cares for justice, nor is bent by any prayers.

When you enter a grove peopled with ancient trees, higher than the ordinary, and shutting out the sky with their thickly inter-twined branches, do not the stately shadows of the wood, the stillness of the place, and the awful gloom of this doomed cavern then strike you with the presence of a deity?

We are more wicked together than separately. If you are forced to be in a crowd, then most of all you should withdraw into yourself.

It is essential to make oneself used to putting up with a little. Even the wealthy and the well provided are continually met and frustrated by difficult times and situations. It is in no man's power to have whatever he wants; but he has it in his power not to wish for what he hasn't got, and cheerfully make the most of the things that do come his way.

After death there is nothing.