Perfect Valor is to do, without a witness, all that we could do before the whole world.

We torment ourselves rather to make it appear that we are happy than to become so.

Our repentances are generally not so much a concern and remorse for the harm we have done, as a fear of the harm we may have brought upon ourselves.

Behind many acts that are thought ridiculous there lie wise and weighty motives.

Organize one's values in the order of their worth

Sincerity is an openness of heart; we find it in very few people; what we usually see is only an artful dissimulation to win the confidence of others.

Perhaps being old is having lighted rooms inside your head, and people in them, acting. People you know, yet can't quite name.