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.

It is a sign of contraction of the mind when it is content, or of weariness.

A volunteer, you assign yourself specific roles and risks according to your judgement of their brilliance and importance, and you see when life itself may be justifiably devoted to them.

There is nothing of evil in life for him who rightly comprehends that death is no evil; to know how to die delivers us from all subjection and constraint.

I have never known a greater miracle, or monster, than myself.

When I dance, I dance; when I sleep, I sleep; yes, and when I walk alone in a beautiful orchard, if my thoughts drift to far-off matters for some part of the time for some other part I lead them back again to the walk, the orchard, to the sweetness of this solitude, to myself.

The conduct of our lives is the true mirror of our doctrine.