I shall never be ashamed to quote a bad author if what he says is good.

There's one blessing only, the source and cornerstone of beatitude: confidence in self.

The fearful face usually betrays great guilt.

However wretched a fellow-mortal may be, he is still a member of our common species.

I will have a care of being a slave to myself, for it is a perpetual, a shameful, and the heaviest of all servitudes; and this may be done by moderate desires.

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

It is only the surprise and newness of the thing which makes that misfortune terrible which by premeditation might be made easy to us. For that which some people make light by sufferance, others do by foresight.