That which makes the man no worse than he was makes his life no worse: it has no power to harm, without or within.

Death is a release from the impressions of the senses, and from desires that make us their puppets, and from the vagaries of the mind, and from the hard service of the flesh.

Body. Soul. Mind. Sensations: the body. Desires: the soul. Reasoning: the mind.

An angry look on the face is wholly against nature. If it be assumed frequently, beauty begins to perish, and in the end is quenched beyond rekindling.

A rational nature admits of nothing but what is serviceable to the rest of mankind.

Everything is but what we think it.

Treat with utmost respect your power of forming opinions, for this power alone guards you against making assumptions that are contrary to nature and judgments that overthrow the rule of reason.