For it is no way right to be offended with men, but it is thy duty to care for them and to bear with them gently; and yet to remember that thy departure will not be from men who have the same principles as thyself.
From his personal reflections, discussing the duty to humanity despite differing principles.
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In the application of thy principles thou must be like the pancratiast, not like the gladiator; for the gladiator lets fall the sword which he uses and is killed; but the other always has his hand, and needs to do nothing else than use it.
In the morning when thou risest unwillingly, let this thought be present,--I am rising to the work of a human being.
He was also easy in conversation, and he made himself agreeable without any offensive affectation.
That which is from fortune is not separated from nature or without an interweaving and involution with the things which are ordered by providence.
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