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.

It is not he who reviles or strikes you who insults you, but your opinion that these things are insulting.

Who are those people by whom you wish to be admired? Are they not these whom you are in the habit of saying that they are mad? What then? Do you wish to be admired by the mad?

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

Any one thing in the creation is sufficient to demonstrate a Providence to a humble and grateful mind.

Fortune is an evil chain to the body, and vice to the soul.

I laugh at those who think they can damage me. They do not know who I am, they do not know what I think, they cannot even touch the things which are really mine and with which I live.