Maybe the most any of us can expect of ourselves isn't perfection but progress.
Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.
The keenest sorrow is to recognize ourselves as the sole cause of all our adversities.
In real life, unlike in Shakespeare, the sweetness of the rose depends upon the name it bears. Things are not only what they are. They are, in very important respects, what they seem to be.
Inside myself is a place where I live all alone and that's where you renew your springs that never dry up.
The most remarkable thing about my mother is that for thirty years she served the family nothing but leftovers. The original meal has never been found.
Nothing is said that has not been said before.