This is the mark of a perfect character - to pass through each day as though it were the last, without agitation, without torpor, and without pretense.

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

Whosoever does wrong, wrongs himself; whosoever does injustice, does it to himself, making himself evil.

It's silly to try to escape other people's faults. They are inescapable. Just try to escape your own.

The constant recollection of death is the test of human conduct.

Everything is interwoven, and the web is holy.

Neither in writing nor in reading wilt thou be able to lay down rules for others before thou shalt have first learned to obey rules thyself.