From my grandfather's father, I learned to dispense with attendance at public schools, and to enjoy good teachers at home, and to recognize that on such things money should be eagerly spent.

In the same degree in which a man's mind is nearer to freedom from all passion, in the same degree also is it nearer to strength.

As surgeons keep their instruments and knives always at hand for cases requiring immediate treatment, so shouldst thou have thy thoughts ready to understand things divine and human, remembering in thy every act, even the smallest, how close is the bond that unites the two.

A person's worth is measured by the worth of what he values.

To understand the true quality of people, you must look into their minds, and examine their pursuits and aversions.

It is a sin to persue pleasure as a good and to avoid pain as a evil.

A man does not sin by commission only, but often by omission.