The share we have in the knowledge of truth, such as it is, has not been acquired by our own powers. God has taught ushis wonderful secrets; our faith is not of our acquiring, it is purely the gift of another's bounty.

..a man may live long, yet live very little. Satisfaction in life depends not on the number of your years, but on your will.

The most regular and most perfect soul in the world has but too much to do to keep itself upright from being overthrown by its own weakness.

Adrian, the Emperor, exclaimed incessantly, when dying, "That the crowd of physicians had killed him."

Health is a precious thing, and the only one, in truth, meriting that a man should lay out not only his time, sweat, labor and goods, but also life itself to obtain it.

Ceremony forbids us to express by words things that are lawful and natural, and we obey it; reason forbids us to do things unlawful and ill, and nobody obeys it.

I turn my gaze inward. I fix it there and keep it busy. I look inside myself. I continually observe myself.