"The greatest 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."

"The only thing that is truly ours is time."

"It is a part of the cure to wish to be cured."

"It is a great thing to know the season for speech and the season for silence."

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