I shall never be ashamed to quote a bad author if what he says is good.

Tranqility is a certain quality of mind, which no condition or fortune can either exalt or depress.

We have not to talk, but to steer the vessel.

He has committed the crime who profits by it.

Precepts or maxims are of great weight; and a few useful ones at hand do more toward a happy life than whole volumes that we know not where to find.

The proper amount of wealth is that which neither descends to poverty nor is far distant from it.

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.