The mind is a matter over every kind of fortune; itself acts in both ways, being the cause of its own happiness and misery.

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.

A young man respects and looks up to his teachers.

We become wiser by adversity; prosperity destroys our appreciation of the right." "True happiness is ... to enjoy the present" "It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are difficult.

We are members of one great body. Nature planted in us a mutual love, and fitted us for a social life. We must consider that we were born for the good of the whole.

Be not dazzled by beauty, but look for those inward qualities which are lasting.

Conversation has a kind of charm about it, an insuating and insidious something that elicits secrets from us just like love or liquor.