Take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature.

Is any man afraid of change? Why what can take place without change? What then is more pleasing or more suitable to the universal nature?

Do what you will. Even if you tear yourself apart, most people will continue doing the same things.

One universe made up all that is; and one God in it all, and one principle of being, and one law, the reason shared by all thinking creatures, and one truth.

They know not how many things are signified by the words stealing, sowing, buying, keeping quiet, seeing what ought to be done; for this is not effected by the eyes, but by another kind of vision.

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.

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.