Nothing is so wretched or foolish as to anticipate misfortunes. What madness it is to be expecting evil before it comes.

The display of grief makes more demands than grief itself. How few men are sad in their own company.

Refrain from following the example of those whose craving is for attention, not their own improvement.

I will govern my life and thoughts as if the whole world were to see the one and read the other, for what does it signify to make anything a secret to my neighbor, when to God, who is the searcher of our hearts, all our privacies are open?

To strive with an equal is dangerous; with a superior, mad; with an inferior, degrading.

Human nature is so constituted that insults sink deeper than kindnesses; the remembrance of the latter soon passes away, while that of the former is treasured in the memory.

The profit on a good action is to have done it.