~"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 he that is so wants nothing. The great blessings of mankind are within us and within our reach. A wise man is content with his lot, whatever it may be, without wishing for what he has not."

~"It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare, it is because we do not dare that they are difficult."

~"Our care should not be to have lived long as to have lived enough."

~"Wealth is the slave of a wise man. The master of a fool."