In the same degree in which a man's mind is nearer to freedom from all passion, in the same degree also is it nearer to strength.

The sinner sins against himself; the wrongdoer wrongs himself, becoming the worse by his own action.

How powerful is man! He is able to do all that God wishes him to do. He is able to accept all that God sends upon him.

Our wills are ours, to make them Thine.

No man is happy who does not think himself so.

Limit time to the present. Meditate upon your last hour.

Anything that is beautiful is beautiful just as it is. Praise forms no part of its beauty, since praise makes things neither better nor worse. This applies even more to what it commonly called beautiful: natural objects, for example, or works of art. True beauty has no need of anything beyond itself.