Know that you are your greatest enemy, but also your greatest friend.

...Learn to give thanks for everything.

Thus Nero went up and down Greece and challenged the fiddlers at their trade. Æropus, a Macedonian king, made lanterns; Harcatius, the king of Parthia, was a mole-catcher; and Biantes, the Lydian, filed needles.

Temperance is reason's girdle and passion's bridle, the strength of the soul and the foundation of virtue.

Men are apt to prefer a prosperous error to an afflicted truth.

Faith gives new light to the soul, but it does not put our eyes out; and what God hathgivenusinournature could never be intended as a snare to Religion, or engage us to believe a lie.

It is impossible to make people understand their ignorance, for it requires knowledge to perceive it; and, therefore, he that can perceive it hath it not.