We are neither obstinately nor wilfully to oppose evils, nor truckle under them for want of courage, but that we are naturally to give way to them, according to their condition and our own, we ought to grant free passage to diseases; and I find they stay less with me who let them alone. And I have lost those which are reputed the most tenacious and obstinate of their own defervescence, without any help or art, and contrary to their rules. Let us a little permit nature to take her own way; she better understands her own affairs than we.

Marriage can be compared to a cage: birds outside it despair to enter, and birds within, to escape.

Confidence in others' honesty is no light testimony of one's own integrity.

The worst condition of humans is when they lose knowledge and control of themselves.

The virtue of the soul does not consist in flying high, but in walking orderly.

Why do people respect the package rather than the man?

Virtue shuns ease as a companion. It demands a rough and thorny path.