Seek not the favor of the multitude; it is seldom got by honest and lawful means. But seek the testimony of few; and number not voices, but weigh them.
What can I know? What ought I to do? What can I hope?
Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.
Ingratitude is the essence of vileness.
Happiness is not an ideal of reason, but of imagination.
It is not necessary that whilst I live I live happily; but it is necessary that so long as I live I should live honourably.