The mind that is anxious about the future is miserable.

True happiness is... to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future.

When an author is too meticulous about his style, you may presume that his mind is frivolous and his content flimsy.

A great mind becomes a great fortune.

Wisdom does not show itself so much in precept as in life - in a firmness of mind and mastery of appetite. It teaches us to do as well as talk; and to make our actions and words all of a color.

There is as much greatness of mind in acknowledging a good turn, as in doing it.