Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.

The pleasure of life is according to the man that lives it, and not according to the work or place.

I cannot find language of sufficient energy to convey my sense of the sacredness of private integrity. All men, all things, the state, the church, yea the friends of the heart are phantasms and unreal beside the sanctuary of the heart. With so much awe, with so much fear, let it be respected.

The art of conversation, or the qualification for a good companion, is a certain self-control, which now holds the subject, now lets it go, with a respect for the emergencies of the moment.

For everything you have missed, you have gained something else, and for everything you gain, you lose something else.

The genius of the Platonists, is intoxicating to the student, yet how few particulars of it can I detach from all their books.

A sage is the instructor of a hundred ages.