Whatever the universal nature assigns to any man at any time is for the good of that man at that time.

Remind oneself continually of one of those who practiced virtue in days gone by.

In the end, what would you gain from everlasting remembrance? Absolutely nothing. So what is left worth living for? This alone: justice in thought, goodness in action, speech that cannot deceive, and a disposition glad of whatever comes, welcoming it as necessary, as familiar, as flowing from the same source and fountain as yourself.

I have often wondered how it is that every man loves himself more than all the rest of men, but yet sets less value on his own opinions of himself than on the opinions of others.

All things from eternity are of like forms and come round in circle.

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

It is right that man should love those who have offended him. He will do so when he remembers that all men are his relations, and that it is through ignorance and involuntarily that they sin,--and then we all die so soon.