The great soul surrenders itself to fate.

What you think about yourself is much more important than what others think of you.

For the great benefits of our being- our life, health, and reason-we look upon ourselves.

No evil is without its compensation ... it is not the loss itself, but the estimate of the loss, that troubles us.

There is no person so severely punished, as those who subject themselves to the whip of their own remorse.

We should every night call ourselves to an account: What infirmity have I mastered today? What passions opposed! What temptation resisted? What virtue acquired?

There's some end at last for the man who follows a path; mere rambling is interminable.