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

When I play with my cat, who knows whether she is not amusing herself with me more than I with her.

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

The confidence in another man's virtue is no light evidence of a man's own, and God willingly favors such a confidence.

I know well what I am fleeing from but not what I am in search of.

Disappointment and feebleness imprint upon us a cowardly and valetudinarian virtue.

All the fame you should look for in life is to have lived it quietly.