I frequently hear persons in old age say how they would live, if they were to live their lives over again: Resolved, That I will live just so as I can think I shall wish I had done, supposing I live to old age.

Resolution One: I will live for God. Resolution Two: If no one else does, I still will.

He who has Christ has all he needs and needs no more.

From love arises hatred of those things which are contrary to what we love, or which oppose and thwart us in those things that we delight in.

Resolved, never to suffer the least motions of anger to irrational beings.

When I am giving the relation of a thing, remember to abstain from altering either in the matter or manner of speaking, so much, as that, if every one, afterwards, should alter as much, it would at last come to be properly false.

Such is man's nature, that he is very inactive and lazy unless he is influenced by some affection, either love or hatred, desire, hope, fear, or some other. These affections we see to be the springs that set men agoing, in all the affairs of life, and engage them in all their pursuits: these are the things that put men forward, and carry them along.