To rejoice in another's prosperity is to give content to your lot; to mitigate another's grief is to alleviate or dispel your own

Between two evils, choose neither; between two goods, choose both.

The great end of education is, to discipline rather than to furnish the mind; to train it to the use of its own powers, rather than fill it with the accumulation of others.

Apothegms are the wisdom of the past condensed for the instruction and guidance of the present.

Every parting is a form of death, as every reunion is a type of heaven.

Never be so brief as to become obscure.

What we gave, we have; What we spent, we had; What we left, we lost.