It passes in the world for greatness of mind, to be perpetually giving and loading people with bounties; but it is one thing to know how to give and another thing not to know how to keep. Give me a heart that is easy and open, but I will have no holes in it; let it be bountiful with judgment, but I will have nothing run out of it I know not how.

We should conduct ourselves not as if we ought to live for the body, but as if we could not live without it.

Tis a human trait to hate one you have wronged

Life without literary studies is death.

Small sorrows speak great ones are silent.

Virtue depends partly upon training and partly upon practice; you must learn first, and then strengthen your learning by action. If this be true, not only do the doctrines of wisdom help us but the precepts also, which check and banish our emotions by a sort of official decree.

The deferring of anger is the best antidote to anger.