Since all things are good, men fail at last to distinguish which is the bane and which the antidote.
We are always paid for our suspicion by finding what we suspect.
The Slothful do not have the time to become virtuous or despicable.
One who knew how to appropriate the true value of this world would be the poorest man in it. The poor rich man! all he has is whathe has bought.
My life is like a stroll upon the beach.
You think that I am impoverishing myself withdrawing from men, but in my solitude I have woven for myself a silken web or chrysalis, and, nymph-like, shall ere long burst forth a more perfect creature, fitted for a higher society.