It is not a demonstration of kindness or friendship to the people we care about to join them in indulging in wrongheaded, negative feelings. We do a better service to ourselves and others by remaining detached and avoiding melodramatic reactions.

Why, do you not know, then, that the origin of all human evils, and of baseness, and cowardice, is not death, but rather the fear of death?

It is no easy thing for a principle to become a man's own unless each day he maintains it and works it out in his life.

If you would be a reader, read; if a writer, write.

To adorn our characters by the charm of an amiable nature shows at once a lover of beauty and a lover of man.

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

When any person treats you ill or speaks ill of you, remember that he does this or says this because he thinks it is his duty. It is not possible, then, for him to follow that which seems right to you, but that which seems right to himself.