Snow endures but for a season, and joy comes with the morning.

You need to be prepared for firm decisions and action, without losing gentleness towards those who obstruct or abuse you. It's as great a weakness to be angry with them as it is to abandon your plan of action and give up through fear.

Your mind will take on the character of your most frequent thoughts: souls are dyed by thoughts.

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

A man should always have these two rules in readiness. First, to do only what the reason of your ruling and legislating faculties suggest for the service of man. Second, to change your opinion whenever anyone at hand sets you right and unsettles you in an opinion, but this change of opinion should come only because you are persuaded that something is just or to the public advantage, not because it appears pleasant or increases your reputation.

He who follows reason in all things is both tranquil and active at the same time, and also cheerful and collected.

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