A great step towards independence is a good-humored stomach, one that is willing to endure rough treatment.

Eternal law has arranged nothing better than this, that it has given us one way in to life, but many ways out.

To be enslaved to oneself is the heaviest of all servitudes.-

The artist finds a greater pleasure in painting than in having completed the picture.

Money has never yet made anyone rich.

He that lays down precepts for the governing of our lives, and moderating our passions, obliges humanity not only in the present, but in all future generations.

The path of precept is long, that of example short and effectual.