Hast thou reason? I have. Why then dost not thou use it? For if this does its own work, what else dost thou wish?

My only fear is doing something contrary to human nature - the wrong thing, the wrong way, or at the wrong time.

I, who have never willfully pained another, have no business to pain myself.

He does not write at all whose poems no man reads

‎"Begin the morning by saying to thyself, I shall meet with the busy-body, the ungrateful, arrogant, deceitful, envious, unsocial

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

For outward show is a wonderful perverter of the reason.