It is my business, to manage carefully and dexterously whatever happens

Act well your given part; the choice rests not with you.

Freedom is secured not by the fulfillment of one's desires, but by the removal of desire.

We can't control the impressions others form about us, and the effort to do so only debases our character.

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.

He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has.

It is difficulties that show what men are. For the future, in case of any difficulty, remember that God, like a gymnastic trainer, has pitted you against a rough antagonist. For what end? That you may be an Olympic conqueror; and this cannot be without toil.