"True happiness is to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future, not to amuse ourselves with either hopes or fears but to rest satisfied with what we have, which is sufficient, for …"

"What is a good man but one who struggles with fortune?"

"Leisure without books is death."

"Hang on to your youthful enthusiasms — you’ll be able to use them better when you’re older."

"No one can be happy who has been thrust out of the way of truth and wanders about through a labyrinth of error."