Some laws, though unwritten, are more firmly established than all written laws.

Retire into yourself as much as possible. Associate with people who are likely to improve you. Welcome those whom you are capable of improving. The process is a mutual one. People learn as they teach.

Every one has time if he likes. Business runs after nobody: people cling to it of their own free will and think that to be busy is a proof of happiness.

Unfamiliarity lends weight to misfortune, and there was never a man whose grief was not heightened by surprise.

Fortune can take away riches, but not courage.

God never repents of what He has first resolved upon.

The mind is never right but when it is at peace within itself.