Selfishness, when it is punished by the world, is mostly punished because it is connected with egotism.

The reasons which any man offers to you for his own conduct betray his opinion of your character.

More than half the difficulties of the world would be allayed or removed by the exhibition of good temper.

Those who never philosophized until they met with disappointments, have mostly become disappointed philosophers

A man's action is only a picture book of his creed.

Experience is the extract of suffering.

We are not so easily guided by our most prominent weaknesses as by those of which we are least aware.