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.

It is better to die of hunger having lived without grief and fear, than to live with a troubled spirit, amid abundance

If virtue promises happiness, prosperity and peace, then progress in virtue is progress in each of these for to whatever point the perfection of anything brings us, progress is always an approach toward it.

Fortify yourself with contentment, for this is an impregnable fortress.

Everything has two handles,-one by which it may be borne; another by which it cannot.

Wish that everything should come about just as it does.

He who is not happy with little will never be happy with much.