You must often make erasures if you mean to write what is worthy of being read a second time; and don't labor for the admiration of the crowd, but be content with a few choice readers.

Fidelity is the sister of justice.

Drop the question of what tomorrow may bring, and count as profit every day that Fate allows you.

One wanders to the left, another to the right. Both are equally in error, but, are seduced by different delusions.

Is virtue raised by culture, or self-sown?

Who has courage to say no again and again to desires, to despise the objects of ambition, who is a whole in himself, smoothed and rounded.

Subdue your passion or it will subdue you.