No one is laughable who laughs at himself.

It is one thing to remember, another to know. To remember is to safeguard something entrusted to the memory. But to know is to make each thing one's own, not depend on the text and always to look back to the teacher. "Zeno said this, Cleanthes said this." Let there be space between you and the book.

He that does good to another does good also to himself, not only in the consequence but in the very act. For the consciousness of well-doing is in itself ample reward.

It is sweet to mingle tears with tears; Griefs, where they wound in solitude, Wound more deeply.

The willing, destiny guides them; the unwilling, destiny drags them.

It makes a great deal of difference whether one wills not to sin or has not the knowledge to sin.

It is never too late to learn what is always necessary to know.