Do something every day that you don't want to do; this is the golden rule for acquiring the habit of doing your duty without pain.
There is always more misery among the lower classes than there is humanity in the higher.
Good company and good discourse are the very sinews of virtue.
The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it.
I respect faith, but doubt is what gets you an education.
The happiest is the person who suffers the least pain; the most miserable who enjoys the least pleasure.
Be more prompt to go to a friend in adversity than in prosperity.
Everybody likes to go their own way--to choose their own time and manner of devotion.
Never does the human soul appear so strong and noble as when it foregoes revenge and dares to forgive an injury.