That which Fortune has not given, she cannot take away.

Some there are that torment themselves afresh with the memory of what is past; others, again, afflict themselves with the apprehension of evils to come; and very ridiculously both - for the one does not now concern us, and the other not yet ... One should count each day as a separate life.

We are as answerable for what we give as for what we receive; nay, the misplacing of a benefit is worse than the not receiving of it; for the one is another person's fault, but the other is mine.

The spirit in which a thing is given determines that in which the debt is acknowledged; it's the intention, not the face-value of the gift, that's weighed.

Look at the stars lighting up the sky: no one of them stays in the same place.

The mind, unless it is pure and holy, cannot see God.

It's a vice to trust all, and equally a vice to trust none.