Believe me, that was a happy age, before the days of architects, before the days of builders.
Anger, if not restrained, is frequently more hurtful to us than the injury that provokes it.
Anger: an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured.
To be able to endure odium is the first art to be learned by those who aspire to power.
If thou art a man, admire those who attempt great things, even though they fail.
A gift consists not in what is done or given, but in the intention of the giver or doer.
If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is favorable.
There is nothing in the world so much admired as a man who knows how to bear unhappiness with courage.
There is none made so great, but he may both need the help and service, and stand in fear of the power and unkindness, even of the meanest of mortals.
We can be thankful to a friend for a few acres, or a little money and yet for the freedom and command of the whole earth, and for the great benefits of our being, our life, health, and reason, we look upon ourselves as under no obligation.
Shall I tell you what the real evil is? To cringe to the things that are called evils, to surrender to them our freedom, in defiance of which we ought to face any suffering.
One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood.
True happiness is... to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future.
I will govern my life and thoughts as if the whole world were to see the one and read the other, for what does it signify to make anything a secret to my neighbor, when to God, who is the searcher of our hearts, all our privacies are open?
Call it Nature, Fate, Fortune all these are names of the one and selfsame God.
God is the universal substance in existing things. He comprises all things. He is the fountain of all being. In Him exists everything that is.
Behold a worthy sight, to which the God, turning his attention to his own work, may direct his gaze. Behold an equal thing, worthy of a God, a brave man matched in conflict with evil fortune.
It is true greatness to have in one the frailty of a man and the security of a god.
As is a tale, so is life: not how long it is, but how good it is, is what matters.
Wisdom allows nothing to be good that will not be so forever no man to be happy but he that needs no other happiness than what he has within himself no man to be great or powerful that is not master of himself.
The good things of prosperity are to be wished but the good things that belong to adversity are to be admired.
Why do I not seek some real good one which I could feel, not one which I could display?
The bad fortune of the good turns their faces up to heaven the good fortune of the bad bows their heads down to the earth.
There is as much greatness of mind in acknowledging a good turn, as in doing it.
It is another's fault if he be ungrateful, but it is mine if I do not give. To find one thankful man, I will oblige a great many that are not so.
We can be thankful to a friend for a few acres, or a little money and yet for the freedom and command of the whole earth, and for the great benefits of our being, our life, health, and reason, we look upon ourselves as under no obligation.
The bravest sight in the world is to see a great man struggling against adversity.
Wisdom allows nothing to be good that will not be so forever no man to be happy but he that needs no other happiness than what he has within himself no man to be great or powerful that is not master of himself.