We all carry the seeds of greatness within us, but we need an image as a point of focus in order that they may sprout.

A soul that makes virtue its companion is like an over-flowing well, for it is clean and pellucid, sweet and wholesome, open to all, rich, blameless and indestructible.

Men are not afraid of things, but of how they view them.

You will do the greatest service to the state if you shall raise, not the roofs of the houses, but the souls of the citizens: for it is better that great souls should dwell in small houses rather than for mean slaves to lurk in great houses.

Any one thing in the creation is sufficient to demonstrate a Providence to a humble and grateful mind.

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

Once you know who you are and to whom you are linked, you will know what to do