Love of bustle is not industry.
If you would wish another to keep your secret first keep it yourself.
The first petition that we are to make to Almighty God is for a good conscience the next for health of mind and then of body.
He who decides a case without hearing the other side though he decide justly cannot be considered just.
The foremost art of kings is the power to endure hatred.
When I think over what I have said I envy dumb people.
The final hour when we cease to exist does not itself bring death; it merely of itself completes the death-process. We reach death at that moment, but we have been a long time on the way.
Revenge is an inhuman word.
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...
The best ideas are common property
A good mind possesses a kingdom: a great fortune is a great slavery.
Pain is slight if opinion has added nothing to it; ... in thinking it slight, you will make it slight. Everything depends on opinion. It is according to opinion that we suffer. A man is as wretched as...
When you enter a grove peopled with ancient trees, higher than the ordinary, and shutting out the sky with their thickly inter-twined branches, do not the stately shadows of the wood, the stillness of...
An age builds up cities: an hour destroys them.
True happiness is to understand our duties toward God and man to enjoy the present without anxious dependence on the future not to amuse ourselves with either hopes or fears but to rest satisfied...
A great step toward independence is a good-humoured stomach.
What a great blessing is a friend with a heart so trusty you may safely bury all your secrets in it.
Night brings our troubles to the light rather than banishes them.
It takes the whole of life to learn how to live, and--what will perhaps make you wonder more--it takes the whole of life to learn how to die.
What need is there to weep over parts of life? The whole of it calls for tears.