The soul that companies with virtue is like an ever-flowing source. It is a pure, clear, and wholesome draught, sweet, rich and generous of its store, that injures not, neither destroys.

Difficulty shows what men are.

Any person capable of angering you becomes your master; he can anger you only when you permit yourself to be disturbed by him.

It is better to die of hunger having lived without grief and fear, than to live with a troubled spirit, amid abundance

Ruin and recovering are both from within.

What is death? A scary mask. Take it off-see, it doesn't bite.

Nothing great is created suddenly, any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig.