Drunkenness is simply voluntary insanity.

Watch over yourself. Be your own accuser, then your judge; ask yourself grace sometimes, and, if there is need, impose upon yourself some pain.

The mind unlearns with difficulty what it has long learned.

We all sorely complain of the shortness of time, and yet have much more than we know what to do with. Our lives are either spent in doing nothing at all, or in doing nothing to the purpose, or in doing nothing that we ought to do. We are always complaining that our days are few, and acting as though there would be no end of them.

Wisdom allows nothing to be good that will not be so forever; no man to be happy but he that needs no other happiness than what he has within himself; no man to be great or powerful that is not master of himself.

If you really want to escape the things that harass you, what you're needing is not to be in a different place but to be a different person.

Everything is the product of one universal creative effort. There is nothing dead in Nature.