“Virtue is harmony.”
“Rest satisfied with doing well, and leave others to talk of you as they will.”
“Strength of mind rests in sobriety; for this keeps your reason unclouded by passion.”
“In this theater of man's life, it is reserved only for God and angels to be lookers-on.”
“Above the cloud with its shadow is the star with its light. Above all things reverence thyself.”
“Concern should drive us into action and not into a depression. No man is free who cannot control himself.”
“Friends are as companions on a journey, who ought to aid each other to persevere in the road to a happier life.”
“If there be light, then there is darkness; if cold, heat; if height, depth; if solid, fluid; if hard, soft; if rough, smooth; if calm, tempest; if prosperity, adversity; if life, death.”
“It is better wither to be silent, or to say things of more value than silence. Sooner throw a pearl at hazard than an idle or useless word; and do not say a little in many words, but a great deal in a few.”