Is freedom anything else than the right to live as we wish? Nothing else.
Wealth consists not in having great possessions but in having few wants.
To accuse others for one's own misfortunes is a sign of want of education. To...
It is not death or pain that is to be dreaded but the fear of pain or death.
First learn the meaning of what you say and then speak.
Make the best use of what is in your power and take the rest as it happens.
The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you whose presence...
When you are offended at any man's fault turn to yourself and study your own...
We are not to give credit to the many who say that none ought to be educated...
Nobody I think ought to read poetry or look at pictures or statues who cannot find a great deal more in them than the poet or artist has actually expressed. Their highest merit is suggestiveness.