It is not my place in society that makes me well off, but my judgements, and these I can carry with me... These alone are my own and cannot be taken away.

We all carry the seeds of greatness within us, but we need an image as a point of focus in order that they may sprout.

God has entrusted me with myself.

Anything worth putting off is worth abandoning altogether.

If a person had delivered up your body to some passer-by, you would certainly be angry. And do you feel no shame in delivering up your own mind to any reviler, to be disconcerted and confounded?

One that desires to excel should endeavor in those things that are in themselves most excellent.

No greater thing is created suddenly, any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig. If you tell me that you desire a fig, I answer you that there must be time. Let it first blossom, then bear fruit, then ripen.