"Negligence is the rust of the soul, that corrodes through all her best resolves."

"Meditation is the soul's perspective glass."

"Zeal without humanity is like a ship without a rudder, liable to be stranded at any moment."

"Perfection is immutable. But for things imperfect, change is the way to perfect them."

"It's kind of awkward to eat alone in a restaurant because everybody's looking at me."

"When from our better selves we have too long been parted by the hurrying world, and droop. Sick of its business, of its pleasures tired, how gracious, how benign is solitude."

"Man cannot live by bread alone he must have peanut butter."

"Solitude is better than the society of evil persons."