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

Nobody is exempt from saying stupid things, the harm is to do it presumptuously.

Not being able to govern events, I govern myself, and apply myself to them if they will not apply themselves to me.

If a man should importune me to give a reason why I loved him, I find it could no otherwise be expressed, than by making answer: because it was he, because it was I.

Give me the provisions and whole apparatus of a kitchen, and I would starve.

The soul which has no fixed purpose in life is lost; to be everywhere, is to be nowhere.

The worth of the mind consisteth not in going high, but in marching orderly.