At this time is freedom anything but the right to live as we wish? Nothing else.

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

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.

As in walking it is your great care not to run your foot upon a nail, or to tread awry, and strain your leg; so let it be in all the affairs of human life, not to hurt your mind or offend your judgment. And this rule, if observed carefully in all your deportment, will be a mighty security to you in your undertakings.

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.

Whoever does not regard what he has as most ample wealth, is unhappy, though he be master of the world.

Happiness and freedom begin with a clear understanding of one principle: Some things are within our control, and some things are not.