Envy is an insult to oneself.
Considering the fortune you might have lost, you'll have to admit you're rich already.
Bad is never good until worse happens.
He who fears being conquered is sure of defeat.
A secretary must think like a man, act like a lady, look like a girl and work like a dog.
Love is strong as death; jealousy is cruel as the grave.
Spirit is the real and eternal; matter is the unreal and the temporal.
On God for all events depend; You cannot want when God's your friend. Weigh well your part and do your best; Leave to your Maker all the rest.
Every new adjustment is a crisis in self-esteem.
Toleration is the best religion.
When I am anxious it is because I am living in the future. When I am depressed it is because I am living in the past.
Men only become friends by community of pleasures.
Love is strong as death; jealousy is cruel as the grave.
To avoid an occasion for our virtues is a worse degree of failure than to push forward pluckily and make a fall.
Unused power slips imperceptibly into the hands of another.
An Italian philosopher said that "time was his estate"; an estate indeed which will produce nothing without cultivation, but will always abundantly repay the labors of industry, and generally satisfy the most extensive desires, if no part of it be suffered to lie in waste by negligence, to be overrun with noxious plants, or laid out for show rather than for use.
See how the Fates their gifts allot. For A is happy - B is not. Yet B is worthy, I dare say, Of more prosperity than A.
Everything's in the mind. That's where it all starts. Knowing what you want is the first step toward getting it.
Women can do everything; men can do the rest.
Giving opens the way for receiving.