Do you know that disease and death must needs overtake us, no matter what we are doing?... what do you wish to be doing when it overtakes you?... If you have anything better to be doing when you are so overtaken, get to work on that.

A soul that makes virtue its companion is like an over-flowing well, for it is clean and pellucid, sweet and wholesome, open to all, rich, blameless and indestructible.

To live a life of virtue, you have to become consistent, even when it isn't convenient, comfortable, or easy.

Events do not just happen, but arrive by appointment.

When you let go of your attention for a little while, do not think you may recover it whenever you please.

When you are offended at any man's fault, turn to yourself and study your own failings. Then you will forget your anger.

If virtue promises happiness, prosperity and peace, then progress in virtue is progress in each of these for to whatever point the perfection of anything brings us, progress is always an approach toward it.