“... the lofty mind of man can be imprisoned by the artifices of its own making.”
“Man is the artificer of his own happiness.”
“The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven..”
“Everyone lives a self-centered life...whether its trivial like what's for breakfast, or more ambitious, like achieving some lofty goal, a person is constantly on her own mind.”
“Imprisonment of the body is bitter; imprisonment of the mind is worse”
“Anger is not bitterness. Bitterness can go on eating at a man's heart and mind forever. Anger spends itself in its own time.”