In a country well governed, poverty is something to be ashamed of. In a country badly governed, wealth is something to be ashamed of.

Between friends there is no need of justice.

The actuality of thought is life.

If you judge investigate.

He who molds the public sentiment... makes statutes and decisions possible or impossible to make.

Happiness is the absence of the striving for happiness.

It is a wise father that knows his own child.

If you tell the truth you don't have to remember anything.

Life's Tragedy is that we get old to soon and wise too late.

To understand everything is to forgive everything

Memory is the scribe of the soul.

My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my own sake.

Everybody likes a compliment.

The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, worry about the future or anticipate troubles, but to live in the present moment wisely and earnestly.

Who is wise? He that learns from everyone.

The desire to reach the stars is ambitious. The desire to reach hearts is wise and most possible.

...for the lesser evil is reckoned a good, in comparison with the greater evil, since the lesser evil is rather to be chosen, than the greater...

Fear has its use, but cowardice has none.

It is better to travel well than to arrive.

We are only as blind as we want to be.