It is quality rather than quantity that matters.

That which is given with pride and ostentation is rather an ambition than a bounty.

Life's like a play: it's not the length, but the excellence of the acting that matters.

Anger, if not restrained, is frequently more hurtful to us than the injury that provokes it.

We are more often frightened than hurt; and we suffer more from imagination than from reality.

It is more fitting for a man to laugh at life than to lament over it.