Men are most apt to believe what they least understand.

There is a certain amount of purpose, acquiescence, and satisfaction in nursing one's melancholy.

No spiritual mind remains within itself; it is always aspiring and going beyond its own strength.

For all parts of the body that we see fit to expose to the wind and air are found fit to endure it: face, feet, hands, legs, shoulders, head, according as custom invites us. For if there is a part of us that is tender and that seems as though it should fear the cold, it should be the stomach, where digestion takes place; our fathers left it uncovered, and our ladies, soft and delicate as they are, sometimes go half bare down to the navel.

The height and value of true virtue consists in the facility, utility, and pleasure of its exercise; so far from difficulty, that boys, as well as men, and the innocent as well as the subtle, may make it their own; and it is by order and good conduct, and not by force, that it is to be acquired.

Amongst all other vices there is none I hate more than cruelty, both by nature and judgment, as the extremest of all vices.

Friendship that possesses the whole soul, and there rules and sways with an absolute sovereignty, can admit of no rival.