One's virtue is all that one truly has, because it is not imperiled by the vicissitudes of fortune.

Who would give a law to lovers? Love is unto itself a higher law.

Whose happiness is so firmly established that he has no quarrel from any side with his estate of life?

Contemplate the extent and stability of the heavens, and then at last cease to admire worthless things.

Inconsistency is my very essence; it is the game I never cease to play as I turn my wheel in its ever changing circle, filled with joy as I bring the top to the bottom and the bottom to the top

A person is an individual substance of a rational nature.

Give me Thy light, and fix my eyes on Thee!