Indolence is stagnation; employment is life.
Most people fancy themselves innocent of those crimes of which they cannot be convicted.
The foundation of the true joy is in the conscience.
If you really want to escape the things that harass you, what you're needing is not to be in a different place but to be a different person.
He who fears from near at hand often fears less.
The greatest chastisement that a man may receive who hath outraged another, is to have done the outrage; and there is no man who is so rudely punished as he that is subject to the whip of his own repentance.