“What is harder than rock? What is softer than water? Yet hard rocks are hollowed out by soft water?”

“We are more often frightened than hurt; and we suffer more from imagination than from reality”

“Nothing is more honorable than a grateful heart.”

“We suffer more often in imagination than in reality”

“Anger, if not restrained, is frequently more hurtful to us than the injury that provokes it.”

“You ask what is the proper limit to a person's wealth? First, having what is essential, and second, having what is enough.”

“It is the quality of a great soul to scorn great things and to prefer that which is ordinary rather than that which is too great.”