The healthy eye ought to see all visible things and not to say, I wish for green things; for this is the condition of a diseased eye.

It never ceases to amaze me: we all love ourselves more than other people, but care more about their opinions than our own.

In an expression of true gratitude, sadness is conspicuous only by its absence

Dress not thy thoughts in too fine a raiment. And be not a man of superfluous words or superfluous deeds.

The mind in itself wants nothing, unless it creates a want for itself; therefore it is both free from perturbation and unimpeded, if it does not perturb and impede itself.

A man is a little soul carrying around a courpse.

Consider when thou art much vexed or grieved, that man's life is only a moment, and after a short time we are all laid out dead.