To live is not a blessing, but to live well.

Wisdom allows nothing to be good that will not be so forever; no man to be happy but he that needs no other happiness than what he has within himself; no man to be great or powerful that is not master of himself.

If you judge, investigate.

It is medicine, not scenery, for which a sick man must go searching.

Sadness usually results from one of the following causes either when a man does not succeed, or is ashamed of his success.

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

That loss is most discreditable which is caused by negligence.