Do nothing in a depressed mood, nor as one afflicted, nor as thinking that you are in misery, for no one compels you to that.

We are not disturbed by what happens to us, but by our thoughts about what happens to us.

Unless we place our religion and our treasure in the same thing, religion will always be sacrificed.

No great thing is created suddenly.

Renew every day your conversation with God: Do this even in preference to eating. Think more often of God than you breathe.

Some things are in our control and others not. Things in our control are opinion, pursuit, desire, aversion, and, in a word, whatever are our own actions. Things not in our control are body, property, reputation, command, and, in one word, whatever are not our own actions.

A man that seeks truth and loves it must be reckoned precious to any human society.