Valor is stability, not of legs and arms, but of courage and the soul.

There is, in public affairs, no state so bad, provided it has age and stability on its side, that it is not preferable to change and disturbance.

Vice leaves, like an ulcer in the flesh, a repentance in the soul which is always scratching itself until it bleeds

Poverty of goods is easily cured; poverty of soul, impossible.

The least strained and most natural ways of the soul are the most beautiful; the best occupations are the least forced.

Though the ancient poet in Plutarch tells us we must not trouble the gods with our affairs because they take no heed of our angers and disputes, we can never enough decry the disorderly sallies of our minds.