If you would be a reader, read; if a writer, write.

Authentic happiness is always independent of external conditions. Vigilantly practice polite indifference to that which we can't control. Your happiness can only be found within.

The universe is but one great city, full of beloved ones, divine and human, by nature endeared to each other.

Forgiveness is better than revenge, for forgiveness is the sign of a gentle nature, but revenge is the sign of a savage nature. the forgiveness of our trespasses, according to the riches of his grace.

To pay homage to beauty is to admire Nature; to admire Nature is to worship God

The soul is unwillingly deprived of truth.

With ills unending strives the putter off.