Certain laws have not been written, but they are more fixed than all the written laws.

Revenge is an inhuman word.

He that will do no good offices after a disappointment must stand still, and do just nothing at all. The plough goes on after a barren year; and while the ashes are yet warm, we raise a new house upon the ruins of a former.

A disease is farther on the road to being cured when it breaks forth from concealment and manifests its power.

You need a change of soul rather than a change of climate.

Conversation has a kind of charm about it, an insuating and insidious something that elicits secrets from us just like love or liquor.

When some state or other offered Alexander a part of its territory and half of all its property he told them that 'he hadn't come to Asia with the intention of accepting whatever they cared to give him, but of letting them keep whatever he chose to leave them.' Philosophy, likewise, tells all other occupations: 'It's not my intention to accept whatever time is leftover from you; you shall have, instead, what I reject.' Give your whole mind to her.