Every one is well or ill at ease, according as he finds himself! not he whom the world believes, but he who believes himself to be so, is content; and in him alone belief gives itself being and reality

Virtue rejects facility to be her companion. She requires a craggy, rough and thorny way.

My trade and art is to live.

No pleasure has any savor for me without communication.

Learning is not to be tacked to the mind, but we must fuse and blend them together, not merely giving the mind a slight tincture, but a thorough and perfect dye. And if we perceive no evident change and improvement, it would be better to leave it alone; learning is a dangerous weapon, and apt to wound its master if it be wielded by a feeble hand, and by one not well acquainted with its use.

He who fears he will suffer, already suffers from his fear.

I know well what I am fleeing from but not what I am in search of.