It is always our inabilities that vex us.
Good maxims are the germs of all excellence.
Imitate time; it destroys everything slowly; it undermines, it wears away, it detaches, it does not wrench.
Our worries always come from our weaknesses.
The breath of the mind is attention.
Grace is in garments, in movements, in manners; beauty in the nude, and in forms. This is true of bodies; but when we speak of feelings, beauty is in their spirituality, and grace in their moderation.