“True happiness is to understand our duties toward God and man; to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence on the future; not to amuse ourselves with either hopes or fears, but to rest satisfied with what we have, which is abundantly sufficient.”

"Nothing is more honorable than a grateful heart."

"The part of life we really live is small.' For all the rest of existence is not life, but merely time."

“To win true freedom you must be a slave to philosophy.”

“Auditur et altera pars. (The other side shall be heard as well.)”

“We are mad, not only individually but nationally. We check manslaughter and isolated murders, but what of war and the much-vaunted crime of slaughtering whole peoples?”

“It is a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness.”

"If a man knows not to which port he sails, no wind is favorable."

“Philosophy calls for simple living, not for doing penance, and the simple way of life need not be a crude one.”

"He who is brave is free."

"A gift consists not in what is done or given, but in the intention of the giver or doer."