The fear of approaching death, which in youth we imagine must cause inquietude to the aged, is very seldom the source of much uneasiness.

Believe all the good you can of everyone. Do not measure others by yourself. If they have advantages which you have not, let your liberality keep pace with their good fortune. Envy no one, and you need envy no one.

Prejudice is never easy unless it can pass itself off for reason.

If you think you can win, you can win. Faith is necessary to victory.

He who lives wisely to himself and his own heart looks at the busy world through the loopholes of retreat, and does not want to mingle in the fray.

A lively blockhead in company is a public benefit. Silence or dulness by the side of folly looks like wisdom.

Nothing precludes sympathy so much as a perfect indifference to it