“Speech is the mirror of the mind.”

Wealth is the slave of a wise man. The master of a fool.

Be wary of the man who urges an action in which he himself incurs no risk.

It does not matter how many books you have, but how good the books are which you have.

The greatest hindrance to living is expectancy, which depends upon tomorrow and wastes today

Retire into yourself as much as possible.

What’s the good of dragging up sufferings which are over, of being unhappy now just because you were then.

The important thing about a problem is not its solution, but the strength we gain in finding the solution.

Time discovers truth. Time heals what reason cannot.

A man is as unhappy as he has convinced himself he is.

Authority founded on injustice is never of long duration.

Everyone rushes his life on, and suffers from a yearning for the future and a boredom with the present.

Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.

The thing that matters is not what you bear, but how you bear 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.