A consciousness of wrongdoing is the first step to salvation...you have to catch yourself doing it before you can correct it.

I have withdrawn not only from men, but from affairs, especially my own affairs; I am working for later generations, writing down some ideas that may be of assistance to them.

We are all sinful. Therefore whatever we blame in another we shall find in our own bosoms.

Man's ideal state is realized when he has fulfilled the purpose for which he is born. And what is it that reason demands of him? Something very easy-that he live in accordance with his own nature.

A good conscience fears no witness, but a guilty conscience is solicitous even in solitude. If we do nothing but what is honest, let all the world know it. But if otherwise, what does it signify to have nobody else know it, so long as I know it myself? Miserable is he who slights that witness.

Friendship always benefits; love sometimes injures.

Nothing is more honorable than a grateful heart.