If you cannot find peace in yourself, it is useless to look for it elsewhere.

We cannot possibly imagine the variety of contradictions in every heart.

If we are incapable of finding peace in ourselves, it is pointless to search elsewhere.

If one judges love by the majority of its effects, it is more like hatred than like friendship.

The head does not know how to play the part of the heart for long.

True bravery means doing alone that which one could do if all the world were by.

Men frequently do good only to give themselves opportunity of doing ill with impunity.