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

When you let go of your attention for a little while, do not think you may recover it whenever you please.

You ought to choose both physician and friend, not the most agreeable, but the most useful.

Preach not to others what they should eat, but eat as becomes you and be silent.

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.

What is a good person? One who achieves tranquillity by having formed the habit of asking on every occasion, "what is the right thing to do now?"

It is impossible for a man to learn what he thinks he already knows.