It is better to have useless knowledge than to know nothing.
The kind of solace that arises from having company in misery is spiteful.
He is a king who fears nothing, he is a king who desires nothing!
Lay hold of today's task, and you will not depend so much upon tomorrow's.
The acquisition of riches has been to many not an end to their miseries, but a change in them: The fault is not in the riches, but the disposition.
True happiness is...to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future.