<p>Irrational worries</p>

Nothing is as certain as that the vices of leisure are gotten rid of by being busy.

The spirit in which a thing is given determines that in which the debt is acknowledged; it's the intention, not the face-value of the gift, that's weighed.

You can tell the character of every man when you see how he receives praise.

There is no great genius without some touch of madness.

The best ideas are common property.

Men do not care how nobly they live, but only how long, although it is within the reach of every man to live nobly, but within no man's power to live long.

Live among men as if God beheld you; speak to God as if men were listening.

It is quality rather than quantity that matters.

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

It is better, of cours, to know useless things than to know nothing.

Every man prefers belief to the exercise of judgement.

He who boasts of his ancestry is praising the deeds of another.

Without an adversary prowess shrivels. We see how great and efficient it really is only when it shows by endurance what it is capable of.

Toil to make yourself remarkable by some talent or other.

Unjust dominion cannot be eternal.

We most often go astray on a well trodden and much frequented road.

We should conduct ourselves not as if we ought to live for the body, but as if we could not live without it.

Wealth is the slave of a wise man. The master of a fool.

What does reason demand of a man? A very easy thing--to live in accord with his nature.