Nothing great is created suddenly, any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig.
Nothing is in reality either pleasant or unpleasant by nature but all things become so through habit
Neither should a ship rely on one small anchor, nor should life rest on a single hope.
In the long run, every man will pay the penalty for this own misdeeds.
We can't control the impressions others form about us, and the effort to do so only debases our character.
Fight against yourself, recover yourself to decency, to modesty, to freedom. And, in the first place, condemn your actions; but when you have condemned them, do not despair of yourself. For both ruin and recovery are from within.