What others think of us would be of little moment did it not, when known, so deeply tinge what we think of ourselves.

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

... frugality makes a poor man rich.

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.

To be always fortunate, and to pass through life with a soul that has never known sorrow, is to be ignorant of one half of nature.

That which takes effect by chance is not an art.

The worse a person is the less he feels it.