Watch over yourself. Be your own accuser, then your judge; ask yourself grace sometimes, and, if there is need, impose upon yourself some pain.

He who begs timidly courts a refusal.

There is no satisfaction in any good without a companion.

Consider, when you are enraged at any one, what you would probably think if he should die during the dispute.

If you are surprised at the number of our maladies, count our cooks.

Nothing is so bitter that a calm mind cannot find comfort in it.

It is within the power of every man to live his life nobly, but of no man to live forever. Yet so many of us hope that life will go on forever, and so few aspire to live nobly.