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.

Most people fancy themselves innocent of those crimes of which they cannot be convicted.

Why do people not confess vices? It is because they have not yet laid them aside. It is a waking person only who can tell their dreams.

It's unknown the place and uncertain the time where death awaits you; thus you must expect death to find you, every time, at every place.

The more violent the storm the sooner it is over.

A great step toward independence is a good-humoured stomach.

It is medicine, not scenery, for which a sick man must go searching.