There is no evil without its compensation.

I will have a care of being a slave to myself, for it is a perpetual, a shameful, and the heaviest of all servitudes; and this may be done by moderate desires.

It does not matter how many books you have, but how good the books are which you have.

To be always fortunate, and to pass through life with a soul that has never known sorrow, is to be ignorant of one half of nature.

The way is long if one follows precepts, but short... if one follows patterns.

Let us not seek our disease out of ourselves; 'tis in us, and planted in our bowels; and the mere fact that we do not perceive ourselves to be sick, renders us more hard to be cured.

The rust of the mind is the destruction of genius.