“Life is long, if you know how to use it.”

True happiness is to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future, not to amuse ourselves with either hopes or fears but to rest satisfied with what we have, which is sufficient, for he that is so wants nothing.

Fire proves gold, adversity proves men.

A gift consists not in what is done or given, but in the intention of the giver or doer.

All cruelty springs from weakness.

Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body.

The Best sign of Wisdom is the consistency between the words and deeds.

The greatest blessings of mankind are within us and within our reach. A wise man is content with his lot, whatever it may be, without wishing for what he has not.

Life is like a play: it’s not the length, but the excellence of the acting that matters.

Often a very old man has no other proof of his long life than his age.

When you die, it will not be because you are sick, but because you were alive.

The great thing is to know when to speak and when to keep quiet.

Leisure without books is death, and burial of a man alive.

A lesson that is never learned can never be too often taught.

Laugh at your problems; everybody else does.

Our fears are always more numerous than our dangers.

Begin at once to live, and count each separate day as a separate life.

All things in this vast universe exist in you, with you, and for you.

Be yourself; no base imitator of another, but your best self.

The first five years have so much to do with how the next 80 turn out.

Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person.

Today is the oldest you’ve ever been, and the youngest you’ll ever be again.

Those who write clearly have readers, those who write obscurely have commentators.

We gain courage and wisdom from every instance in which we stop to look fear in the face

All art is knowing when to stop.