"Nature herself makes the wise man rich."

"Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education without natural ability."

"Not to know what has been transacted in former times is to be always a child. If no use is made of the labors of past ages, the world must remain always in the infancy of knowledge."

"What we call pleasure, and rightly so is the absence of all pain."

"In so far as the mind is stronger than the body, so are the ills contracted by the mind more severe than those contracted by the body."

"There are some duties we owe even to those who have wronged us. There is, after all, a limit to retribution and punishment."

"What profits a man if he keeps his eternal soul when he could have lived life to the full and been forgiven at the end of it all anyway?"

"A soft answer turneth away wrath: but grievous words stir up anger."

"You know how it is when you go to be the subject of a psychology experiment, and nobody else shows up, and you think maybe that's part of the experiment? I'm like that all the time."

"Do no dishonour to the earth least you dishonour the spirit of man."

"Anyone can hold the helm when the sea is calm."

"People who count their chickens before they are hatched, act very wisely, because chickens run about so absurdly that it is impossible to count them accurately."