"What is evil? It is that which you have seen many times. And when you are about to be angry with anyone, remember that man is not evil, but only acts in error."

"Ask yourself: Is this necessary?"

"The present is the only thing of which a man can be deprived, if it is true that this is the only thing which he possesses, and that a man cannot lose a thing if he has it not."

"Dig deep within yourself, for there is a fountain of goodness ever ready to flow if you will keep digging."

"The true way to render ourselves happy is to love what we ought and not to hate what we ought not."