Our wills are ours, to make them Thine.

Failure to read what is happening in another's soul is not easily seen as a cause of unhappiness: but those who fail to attend the motions of their own soul are necessarily unhappy.

Be like the cliff against which the waves continually break; but it stands firm and tames the fury of the water around it.

It is within our power not to make a judgement about something, and so not disturb our minds; for nothing in itself possesses the power to form our judgements.

Men seek out retreats for themselves in the country, by the seaside, on the moutains . . . But all this is unphilosophical to the last degree . . . when thou canst at a moment's notice retire into thyself.

We are the other of the other

Nowhere can man find a quieter or more untroubled retreat than in his own soul.