To behave rightly, we ourselves should never lay a hand on our servants as long as our anger lasts. Things will seem different to us when we have quieted and cooled down.

If I can, I shall keep my death from saying anything that my life has not already said.

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

Is it not better to remain in suspense than to entangle yourself in the many errors that the human fancy has produced? Is it not better to suspend your convictions than to get mixed up in these seditious and quarrelsome divisions?

[Marriage] happens as with cages: the birds without despair to get in, and those within despair of getting out.

Love to his soul gave eyes; he knew things are not as they seem. The dream is his real life; the world around him is the dream.

The most regular and most perfect soul in the world has but too much to do to keep itself upright from being overthrown by its own weakness.