Without the capacity to provide its own information, the mind drifts into randomness.
Order is not pressure which is imposed on society from without, but an equilibrium which is set up from within.
Because we don't think about future generations, they will never forget us.
Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world.
You can go a long way with bad legs and a good head.
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.
It is hard to fight an enemy who has outposts in your head.