A soul which is conversant with virtue is like an ever flowing source, for it is pure and tranquil and potable and sweet and communicative (social) and rich and harmless and free from mischief.

Give me by all means the shorter and nobler life, instead of one that is longer but of less account!

By accepting life's limits and inevitabilities and working with them rather than fighting them, we become free.

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.

The greater the difficulty the more glory in surmounting it. Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempests.

Tentative efforts lead to tentative outcome.

If you seek Truth, you will not seek to gain a victory by every possible means; and when you have found Truth, you need not fear being defeated.