Obstinacy is the result of the will forcing itself into the place of the intellect.

We must set limits to our wishes, curb our desires, moderate our anger, always remembering that an individual can attain only an infinitesimal share in anything that is worth having; and that on the other hand, everyone must incur many of the ills of life

The old woman dies, the burden is lifted.

It is not what things are objectively and in themselves, but what they are for us, in our way of looking at them, that makes us happy or the reverse.

I believe a person of any fine feeling scarcely ever sees a new face without a sensation akin to a shock, for the reason that it presents a new and surprising combination of unedifying elements.

Vengeance taken will often tear the heart and torment the conscience.

All wanting comes from need, therefore from lack, therefore from suffering.