We every day and every hour say things of another that we might more properly say of ourselves, could we but apply our observations to our own concerns.

We trouble our life by thoughts about death, and our death by thoughts about life.

There is a plague on Man, the opinion that he knows something.

Fie on the eloquence that leaves us craving itself, not things!

And if nobody reads me, shall I have wasted my time, when I have beguiled so many idle hours with such pleasant and profitable reflections?

The greater part of the world's troubles are due to questions of grammar.

The wise man should withdraw his soul within, out of the crowd, and keep it in freedom and power to judge things freely; but as for externals, he should wholly follow the accepted fashions and forms.