From every spot on earth we are equally near heaven and the infinite.
To repel one's cross is to make it heavier.
Common sense is calculation applied to life.
Put personal ambition away from you, and then you will find consolation in living or in dying, whatever may happen to you.
Man is a passion which brings a will into play, which works an intelligence.
There is no curing a sick man who believes himself to be in health.