The bravest sight in the world is to see a great man struggling against adversity.
The pressure of adversity does not affect the mind of the brave man... It is more powerful than external circumstances.
There are more things to alarm us than to harm us, and we suffer more often in apprehension than reality.
Nothing is so wretched or foolish as to anticipate misfortunes. What madness is it to be expecting evil before it comes.
Expecting is the greatest impediment to living. In anticipation of tomorrow, it loses today.
The deferring of anger is the best antidote to anger.
True happiness is... to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future.
The mind that is anxious about the future is miserable.
Everything is the product of one universal creative effort. There is nothing dead in Nature. Everything is organic and living, and therefore the whole world appears to be a living organism.
A well governed appetite is the greater part of liberty.
Wisdom does not show itself so much in precept as in life - in firmness of mind and a mastery of appetite. It teaches us to do as well as to talk; and to make our words and actions all of a color.
We become wiser by adversity; prosperity destroys our appreciation of the right.
Believe me, that was a happy age, before the days of architects, before the days of builders.
I shall never be ashamed of citing a bad author if the line is good.
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.
When an author is too meticulous about his style, you may presume that his mind is frivolous and his content flimsy.
Poverty wants some, luxury many, and avarice all things.
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.
No one can be happy who has been thrust outside the pale of truth. And there are two ways that one can be removed from this realm: by lying, or by being lied to.