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

If you wish to write, write.

We cannot choose our external circumstances, but we can always choose how we respond to them.

The good or ill of a man lies within his own will.

If you do not wish to be prone to anger, do not feed the habit; give it nothing which may tend to its increase.

To adorn our characters by the charm of an amiable nature shows at once a lover of beauty and a lover of man.

Why, do you not know, then, that the origin of all human evils, and of baseness, and cowardice, is not death, but rather the fear of death?