He is greedy of life who is not willing to die when the world is perishing around him.

True happiness is...to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future.

A man's ability cannot possibly be of one sort and his soul of another. If his soul be well-ordered, serious and restrained, his ability also is sound and sober. Conversely, when the one degenerates, the other is contaminated.

We are all sinful. Therefore whatever we blame in another we shall find in our own bosoms.

Vice is contagious, and there is no trusting the sound and the sick together.

It is not goodness to be better than the worst.

Not how long, but how well you have lived is the main thing.