Take full account of what Excellencies you possess, and in gratitude remember how you would hanker after them, if you had them not.

Consider frequently the connection of all things in the universe and their relation to one another. For things are somehow implicated with one another, and all in a way friendly to one another.

Nature in no case cometh short of art, for the arts are copiers of natural forms.

I, who have never willfully pained another, have no business to pain myself.

There is nothing happens to any person but what was in his power to go through with.

Look at everything that exists, and observe that it is already in dissolution and in change, and as it were putrefaction or dispersion, or that everything is so constituted by nature as to die.

...the infallible man does not exist.