Do you desire not to be angry? Be not inquisitive. He who inquires what is said of him only works out his own misery.

It is remarkable that Providence has given us all things for our advantage near at hand; but iron, gold, and silver, being both the instruments of blood and slaughter and the price of it, nature has hidden in the bowels of the earth.

He who comes to a conclusion when the other side is unheard, may have been just in his conclusion, but yet has not been just in his conduct.

As fate is inexorable, and not to be moved either with tears or reproaches, an excess of sorrow is as foolish as profuse laughter; while, on the other hand, not to mourn at all is insensibility.

The person you are matters more than the place to which you go.

There is nothing the busy man is less busied with than living; there is nothing harder to learn.

There are a few men whom slavery holds fast, but there are many more who hold fast to slavery.