The spirit from which we act is the principal matter.

In all things, to serve from the lowest station upwards is necessary. To restrict yourself to a trade is best. For the narrow mind, whatever he attempts is still a trade; for the higher, an art; and the highest in doing one thing does all, or, to speak less paradoxically, in the one thing which he does rightly he sees the likeness of all that is done rightly.

Death is a commingling of eternity with time; in the death of a good man, eternity is seen looking through time.

Sin writes histories, goodness is silent.

How often do I lull my seething blood to rest, for you have never seen anything so unsteady, so uncertain, as this heart.

He only earns his freedom and his life Who takes them every day by storm.

What is part of you, you cannot get rid of, even if you were to throw it away.