A great estate is a great disadvantage to those who do not know how to use it, for nothing is more common than to see wealthy persons live scandalously and miserably; riches do them no service in order to virtue and happiness; therefore 'tis precept and principle, not an estate, that makes a man good for something.

Look deeply. Don't miss the inherent quality and value of everything.

Vex not thy spirit at the course of things, they heed not thy vexations

Is any man afraid of change? Why what can take place without change? What then is more pleasing or more suitable to the universal nature?

If unwilling to rise in the morning, say to thyself, 'I awake to do the work of a man.'

God overrules all mutinous accidents, brings them under His laws of fate, and makes them all serviceable to His purpose.

The perfection of moral character consists in this, in passing every day as the last, and in being neither violently excited nor torpid nor playing the hypocrite.