Events do not just happen, but arrive by appointment.

When our friends are present we ought to treat them well; and when they are absent, to speak of them well.

Imagine for yourself a character, a model personality, whose example you determine to follow, in private as well as in public.

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

No greater thing is created suddenly, any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig. If you tell me that you desire a fig, I answer you that there must be time. Let it first blossom, then bear fruit, then ripen.

Is freedom anything else than the power of living as we choose? Nothing else. Tell me then, you men, do you wish to live in error? We do not. No one who lives in error is free. Do you wish to live in fear? Do you wish to live in sorrow? Do you wish to live in tension? By no means. No one who is in a state of fear or sorrow or tension is free, but whoever is delivered from sorrows or fears or anxieties, he is at the same time also delivered from servitude.

Let no man think that he is loved by any who loveth none.