“True happiness is to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future ”

“Nothing is worth more than this day”

“Our grand business undoubtedly is, not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand”

“To acknowledge the presence of fear is to give birth to failure”

“Books are the legacies that a great genius leaves to mankind, which are delivered down from generation to generation as presents to the posterity of those who are yet unborn”

“Reflect upon your present blessings, of which every man has plenty; not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some”