I respect faith, but doubt is what gets you an education.
Work saves us from three great evils: boredom, vice and need.
If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself, tell yourself that you are not poet enough to call forth its riches.
Men are equal; it is not birth but virtue that makes the difference.
Nothing contributes so much to tranquilizing the mind as a steady purpose - a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye.
Treat all disasters as if they were trivialities but never treat a triviality as if it were a disaster.
Sometimes love will pick you up by the short hairs...and jerk the heck out of you.