As the soil, however rich it may be, cannot be productive without cultivation, so the mind without culture can never produce good fruit

Nothing is so bitter that a calm mind cannot find comfort in it.

The body is not a permanent dwelling, but a sort of inn which is to be left behind when one perceives that one is a burden to the host.

Nature does not bestow virtue; to be good is an art.

It does not matter how many books you have, but how good the books are which you have.

I require myself not to be equal to the best, but to be better then the bad.

Tis not the belly's hunger that costs so much, but its pride