To a reasonable creature, that alone is insupportable which is unreasonable; but everything reasonable may be supported.

The essence of good and evil is a certain disposition of the will.

No matter what happens, it is within my power to turn it to my advantage.

The soul that companies with virtue is like an ever-flowing source. It is a pure, clear, and wholesome draught, sweet, rich and generous of its store, that injures not, neither destroys.

Renew every day your conversation with God: Do this even in preference to eating. Think more often of God than you breathe.

Whatever you would make habitual, practice it; and if you would not make a thing habitual, do not practice it, but accustom yourself to something else.

I have to die. If it is now, well then I die now; if later, then now I will take my lunch, since the hour for lunch has arrived - and dying I will tend to later.