We should every night call ourselves to an account; What infirmity have I mastered today? What passions opposed? What temptation resisted? What virtue acquired? Our vices will abort of themselves if they be brought every day to the shrift.
Do not be awe struck by other people and try to copy them. Nobody can be you as efficiently as you can.
When we lose one we love, our bitterest tears are called forth by the memory of hours when we loved not enough.
Laughing is the sensation of feeling good all over and showing it principally in one spot.
Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.
Get away from the crowd when you can. Keep yourself to yourself, if only for a few hours daily.
Well done is better than well said.
The brain is a wonderful organ. It starts working the moment you get up in the morning and does not stop until you get into the office.
Happiness is not a station you arrive at, but a manner of traveling.