"How ridiculous and how strange to be surprised at anything which happens in life."

"When you are offended at any man's fault, turn to yourself and study your own failings. Then you will forget your anger."

"That which does not make a man worse, does not make his life worse."

"When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive - to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love."

"The soul of man does violence to itself, first of all, when it becomes an abscess and, as it were, a tumour on the universe, so far as it can."