“True happiness is... to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future.”
Tip: press → for another quote, C to copy, S to share.
Believe me, that was a happy age, before the days of architects, before the days of builders.
Consult your friend on all things, especially on those which respect yourself. His counsel may then be useful where your own self-love might impair your judgment.
I will govern my life and thoughts as if the whole world were to see the one and read the other, for what does it signify to make anything a secret to my neighbor, when to God, who is the searcher of our hearts, all our privacies are open?
A great mind becomes a great fortune.