“There is a noble manner of being poor, and who does not know it will never be rich.”
“We often want one thing and pray for another, not telling the truth even to the gods.”
“A gift consists not in what is done or given, but in the intention of the giver or doer.”
“Why do I not seek some real good; one which I could feel, not one which I could display?”
“Many shed tears merely for show, and have dry eyes when no one's around to observe them.”
“There's one blessing only, the source and cornerstone of beatitude -- confidence in self.”
“What difference does it make how much you have? What you do not have amounts to much more.”
“Success is not greedy, as people think, but insignificant. That is why it satisfies nobody.”
“Anger, if not restrained, is frequently more hurtful to us than the injury that provokes it.”
“Believe me, that was a happy age, before the days of architects, before the days of builders.”
“Philosophy does not regard pedigree, she received Plato not as a noble, but she made him one.”
“No evil propensity of the human heart is so powerful that it may mot be subdued by discipline.”
“We are more often frightened than hurt; and we suffer more from imagination than from reality.”
“May be is very well, but Must is the master. It is my duty to show justice without recompense.”
“A quarrel is quickly settled when deserted by one party; there is no battle unless there be two.”
“It is the constant fault and inseparable evil quality of ambition, that it never looks behind it.”
“It makes a great deal of difference whether one wills not to sin or has not the knowledge to sin.”
“The display of grief makes more demands than grief itself. How few men are sad in their own company.”
“No action will be considered blameless, unless the will was so, for by the will the act was dictated.”
“There are no greater wretches in the world than many of those whom people in general take to be happy.”
“There is nothing in the world so much admired as a man who knows how to bear unhappiness with courage.”
“It is the sign of a great mind to dislike greatness, and prefer things in measure to things in excess.”
“There are more things to alarm us than to harm us, and we suffer more often in apprehension than reality.”
“The pleasures of the palate deal with us like the Egyptian thieves, who strangle those whom they embrace.”
“There is no person so severely punished, as those who subject themselves to the whip of their own remorse.”
“No one is better born than another, unless they are born with better abilities and a more amiable disposition.”
“The good things of prosperity are to be wished; but the good things that belong to adversity are to be admired.”
“Anger: an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured.”
“It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are difficult.”
“When an author is too meticulous about his style, you may presume that his mind is frivolous and his content flimsy.”