The soul's impurity consists in bad judgements, and purification consists in producing in it right judgements, and the pure soul is one which has right judgements, for this alone is proof against confusion and pollution in its functions.

Freedom is not procured by a full enjoyment of what is desired, but by controlling the desire.

Unless we place our religion and our treasure in the same thing, religion will always be sacrificed.

There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will.

Contentment, as it is a short road and pleasant, has great delight and little trouble.

Watch yourself as you go about your daily business and later reflect on what you saw, trying to identify the sources of distress in your life and thinking about how to avoid that distress.

It is no easy thing for a principle to become a man's own unless each day he maintains it and works it out in his life.