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A room without books is like a body without a soul.
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If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.
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Six mistakes mankind keeps making century after century:
Believing that personal gain is made by crushing others;
Worrying about things that cannot be changed or corrected;
Insisting that a thing is impossible because we cannot accomplish it;
Refusing to set aside trivial preferences;
Neglecting development and refinement of the mind;
Attempting to compel others to believe and live as we do.
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Times are bad. Children no longer obey their parents, and everyone is writing a book.
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In times of war, the law falls silent.
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For there is but one essential justice which cements society, and one law which establishes this justice. This law is right reason, which is the true rule of all commandments and prohibitions. Whoever neglects this law, whether written or unwritten, is necessarily unjust and wicked.
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Friendship improves happiness, and abates misery, by doubling our joys, and dividing our grief
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If we are not ashamed to think it, we should not be ashamed to say it.
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Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all others.