You bear God within you, poor wretch, and know it not.

Don't demand or expect that events happen as you would wish them do. Accept events as they actually happen. That way, peace is possible.

You are a little soul carrying around a corpse.

When something happens, the only thing in your power is your attitude toward it. It is not the things that disturb us, but our interpretation of their significance. Things and people are not what we wish them to be nor are they what they seem to be. They are what they are.

In the long run, every man will pay the penalty for this own misdeeds.

Dare to look up to God and say, Deal with me in the future as Thou wilt; I am of the same mind as Thou art; I am Thine; I refuse nothing that pleases Thee; lead me where Thou wilt; clothe me in any dress Thou choosest.

The essence of philosophy is that a man should so live that his happiness shall depend as little as possible on external things.