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

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

When the Idea, of any Pleasure strikes your Imagination... let that time be employed in making a just Computation between, the duration of the Pleasure, and that of the Repentance sure to follow it.

Do not strive for things occurring to occur as you wish, but wish the things occurring as they occur, and you will flow well.

It is not so much what happens to you as how you think about what happens." Epictetus

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.

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?