Don't be prideful with any excellence that is not your own

What is it that every man seeks? To be secure, to be happy, to do what he pleases without restraint and without compulsion.

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?"

Happiness and personal fulfillment are the natural consequences of doing the right thing.

To pay homage to beauty is to admire Nature; to admire Nature is to worship God

No man is free who is not master of himself... Is freedom anything else than the power of living as we choose?

Two principles we should always have ready — that there is nothing good or evil save in the will; and that we are not to lead events, but to follow them.