"When you have said 'Tomorrow I will begin to attend,' you must be told that you are saying this: 'Today I will be shameless, disregardful of time and place, mean; it will be in the power of others to …"

"Don't demand that things happen as you wish, but wish that they happen as they do happen, and you will go on well."

"No man can rob us of our will."

"If you want to improve, be content to be thought foolish and stupid."

"God save me from fools with a little philosophy—no one is more difficult to reach."