We are more solicitous that men speak of us, than how they speak.

Meditation is a rich and powerful method of study for anyone who knows how to examine his mind.

It is much more easy to accuse the one sex than to excuse the other.

If you have known how to compose your life, you have done a great deal more than the person who knows how to compose a book. You have done more than the one who has taken cities and empires.

We must learn to suffer what we cannot evade.

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

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