Nature hath given men one tongue but two ears, that we may hear from others twice as much as we speak.

It is your own convictions which compels you; that is, choice compels choice.

Man is troubled not by events, but by the meaning he gives them.

No living being is held by anything so strongly as by its own needs. Whatever therefore appears a hindrance to these, be it brother, or father, or child, or mistress, or friend, is hated, abhorred, execrated.

Anything worth putting off is worth abandoning altogether.

Even as the Sun doth not wait for prayers and incantations to rise, but shines forth and is welcomed by all: so thou also wait not for clapping of hands and shouts and praise to do thy duty; nay, do good of thine own accord, and thou wilt be loved like the Sun.

As a man, casting off worn out garments taketh new ones, so the dweller in the body, entereth into ones that are new.