Do you ask what is the proper limit to wealth? It is, first, to have what is necessary, and, second, to have what is enough.

While we are postponing, life speeds by.

There is an element of self-seeking even in our sorrow.

It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor.

The primary indication, to my thinking, of a well-ordered mind is a man's ability to remain in one place and linger in his own company.

presently that brow of yours will be smoothed

Again, let us possess nothing that can be snatched from us to the great profit of a plotting foe.

Virtue is held too cheap by the man who counts his body too dear. We should cherish the body with the greatest care;

repose does not consist in condemning all motion as merely vexation;