Might I have had my own will, I would not have married Wisdom herself, if she would have had me.

The births of all things are weak and tender and therefore we should have our eyes intent on beginnings.

To begin depriving death of its greatest advantage over us, let us adopt a way clean contrary to that common one; let us deprive death of its strangeness, let us frequent it, let us get used to it; let us have nothing more often in mind than death... We do not know where death awaits us: so let us wait for it everywhere." "To practice death is to practice freedom. A man who has learned how to die has unlearned how to be a slave.

Courtesy is a science of the highest importance. It is...opening a door that we may derive instruction from the example of others, and at the same time enabling us to benefit them by our example, if there be anything in our character worthy of imitation.

The beauty of stature is the only beauty of men.

The conduct of our lives is the true mirror of our doctrine.

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