Let us not seek our disease out of ourselves; 'tis in us, and planted in our bowels; and the mere fact that we do not perceive ourselves to be sick, renders us more hard to be cured.

In a moment the ashes are made, but a forest is a long time growing.

They who have light in themselves will not revolve as satellites.

Life's neither a good nor an evil: it's a field for good and evil.

How can a thing possibly govern others when it cannot be governed itself?

A person's fears are lighter when the danger is at hand.

Great is he who enjoys his earthenware as if it were plate, and not less great is the man to whom all his plate is no more that earthenware.