Meditation is a powerful and full study as can effectually taste and employ themselves.

All permanent decisions are made in a temporary state of mind.

The thing in the world I am most afraid of is fear.

If my intentions were not to be read in my eyes and voice, I should not have survived so long without quarrels and without harm, seeing the indiscreet freedom with which I say, right or wrong, whatever comes into my head.

To honor him whom we have made is far from honoring him that hath made us.

The shortest way to arrive at glory should be to do that for conscience which we do for glory. And the virtue of Alexander appears to me with much less vigor in his theater than that of Socrates in his mean and obscure. I can easily conceive Socrates in the place of Alexander, but Alexander in that of Socrates I cannot.

He who does not live in some degree for others, hardly lives for himself.