Happiness is the perpetual possession of being well deceived.
Forget regret, or life is yours to miss.
Pick battles big enough to matter, small enough to win.
We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love on another.
May you live every day of your life.
The stoical scheme of supplying our wants by lopping off our desires, is like cutting off our feet when we want shoes.
How is it possible to expect mankind to take advice when they will not so much as take warning
Some people take more care to hide their wisdom than their folly.
May you live all the days of your life.
Argument is the worst sort of conversation.