Anger, if not restrained, is frequently more hurtful to us than the injury that provokes it.

What is required is not a lot words, but effectual ones.

You have to persevere and fortify your pertinacity until the will to good becomes a disposition to good.

There's one blessing only, the source and cornerstone of beatitude: confidence in self.

No man is free who is a slave to the flesh.

The place one's in, though, doesn't make any contribution to peace of mind: it's the spirit that makes everything agreeable to oneself.

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