Let your one delight and refreshment be to pass from one service to the community to another, with God ever in mind.

A man should remove not only unnecessary acts, but also unnecessary thoughts, for then superfluous activity will not follow.

Look within. Within is the fountain of good, and it will ever bubble up, if thou wilt ever dig.

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

How barbarous, to deny men the privilege of pursuing what they imagine to be their proper concerns and interests! Yet, in a sense, this is just what you are doing when you allow your indignation to rise at their wrongdoing; for after all, they are only following their own apparent concerns and interests. You say they are mistaken? Why then, tell them so, and explain it to them, instead of being indignant.

This is the mark of a perfect character - to pass through each day as though it were the last, without agitation, without torpor, and without pretense.

Look at everything that exists, and observe that it is already in dissolution and in change, and as it were putrefaction or dispersion, or that everything is so constituted by nature as to die.