When self control is lacking in small things, the ability to apply it to matters of importance withers away. Every day in which one does not at least deny himself some trifle is badly spent and a threat to the day following.

The demand to be loved is the greatest of all arrogant presumptions.

Perhaps no one as yet has been truthful enough about what "truthfulness" is.

If you have an enemy, do not requite him evil with good, for that would put him to shame. Rather prove that he did you some good.

The weak and the botched shall perish: first principle of our charity.

Foolish is my happiness, and foolish things will it speak: it is still too young—so have patience with it!

The doer is merely a fiction added to the deed ? the deed is everything.