we know nothing of tomorrow, our business is to be good and happy today
Manners are the shadows of virtues; the momentary display of those qualities which our fellow creatures love, and respect.
No man can ever end with being superior who will not begin with being inferior.
Hope is the belief, more or less strong, that joy will come.
What would life be without arithmetic, but a scene of horrors?
Solitude cherishes great virtues and destroys little ones.