He does not write at all whose poems no man reads

Let men see, let them know, a real man, who lives as he was meant to live.

It is right that man should love those who have offended him. He will do so when he remembers that all men are his relations, and that it is through ignorance and involuntarily that they sin,--and then we all die so soon.

Tranquility is nothing else than the good ordering of the mind.

Get rid of the judgement ... get rid of the 'I am hurt,' you are rid of the hurt itself.

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

Embellish the soul with simplicity, with prudence, and everything which is neither virtuous nor vicious. Love all men. Walk according to God; for, as a poet hath said, his laws govern all.