You never know yourself till you know more than your body.

Had we not loved ourselves at all, we could never have been obliged to love anything. So that self-love is the basis of all love.

As nothing is more easy than to think, so nothing is more difficult than to think well.

Be sensible of your wants, that you maybe sensible of your treasures.

The soul is made for action, and cannot rest till it be employed. Idleness is its rust. Unless it will up and think and taste and see, all is in vain.

The world is a mirror of infinite beauty, yet no man sees it. It is a Temple of Majesty, yet no man regards it. It is a region of Light and Peace, did not men disquiet it. It is the Paradise of God.

To think the world therefore a general Bedlam, or place of madmen, and oneself a physician, is the most necessary point of present wisdom: an important imagination, and the way to happiness.