A benefit consists not in what is done or given, but in the intention of the giver or doer.

We are all sinful. Therefore whatever we blame in another we shall find in our own bosoms.

Whatsoever has exceeded its proper limit is in an unstable position.

There is this blessing, that while life has but one entrance, it has exits innumerable, and as I choose the house in which I live, the ship in which I will sail, so will I choose the time and manner of my death.

The sovereign good of man is a mind that subjects all things to itself and is itself subject to nothing; such a man's pleasures are modest and reserved, and it may be a question whether he goes to heaven, or heaven comes to him; for a good man is influenced by God Himself, and has a kind of divinity within him.

Let the weary at length possess quiet rest.

Virtue depends partly upon training and partly upon practice; you must learn first, and then strengthen your learning by actions.