“Anger, if not restrained, is frequently more hurtful to us than the injury that provokes it.”

“We are more often frightened than hurt; and we suffer more from imagination than from reality”

“Nothing is more honorable than a grateful heart.”

“We suffer more often in imagination than in reality”

“No past life has been lived to lend us glory, and that which has existed before us is not ours.”

“We should conduct ourselves not as if we ought to live for the body, but as if we could not live without it. Our too great love for it makes us restless with fears, burdens us with cares, and exposes us to insults.”

“What is harder than rock? What is softer than water? Yet hard rocks are hollowed out by soft water?”