You are a little soul carrying around a corpse.

Seek to be the purple thread in the long white gown.

If I was a nightingale I would sing like a nightingale; if a swan, like a swan. But since I am a rational creature my role is to praise God.

No man is free who is not master of himself... Is freedom anything else than the power of living as we choose?

Imagine for yourself a character, a model personality, whose example you determine to follow, in private as well as in public.

Think of God oftener than you breathe.

Any person capable of angering you becomes your master; he can anger you only when you permit yourself to be disturbed by him.