It is the practice of the multitude to bark at eminent men, as little dogs do at strangers.

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

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

I am telling you to be a slow-speaking person.

So called pleasures, when they go beyond a certain limit, are but punishments.

Light troubles speak; the weighty are struck dumb.

He that does good to another does good also to himself.