The soul is unwillingly deprived of truth.

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

If a person had delivered up your body to some passer-by, you would certainly be angry. And do you feel no shame in delivering up your own mind to any reviler, to be disconcerted and confounded?

You become what you give your attention to...If you yourself don't choose what thoughts and images you expose yourself to, someone else will, and their motives may not be the highest.

It is the act of an ill-instructed man to blame others for his own bad condition; it is the act of one who has begun to be instructed, to lay the blame on himself; and of one whose instruction is completed, neither to blame another, nor himself.

Not every difficult and dangerous thing is suitable for training, but only that which is conducive to success in achieving the object of our effort.

In prosperity it is very easy to find a friend; but in adversity it is the most difficult of all things.