No great thing is created suddenly. There must be time. Give your best and always be kind.

It is not he who gives abuse that affronts, but the view that we take of it as insulting; so that when one provokes you it is your own opinion which is provoking.

Men are not afraid of things, but of how they view them.

Fight against yourself, recover yourself to decency, to modesty, to freedom. And, in the first place, condemn your actions; but when you have condemned them, do not despair of yourself. For both ruin and recovery are from within.

The essence of philosophy is that a man should so live that his happiness shall depend as little as possible on external things.

When the Idea, of any Pleasure strikes your Imagination... let that time be employed in making a just Computation between, the duration of the Pleasure, and that of the Repentance sure to follow it.

If thy brother wrongs thee, remember not so much his wrong-doing, but more than ever that he is thy brother.