Things themselves cannot touch the soul, not in the least degree, nor have they admission to the soul nor can they turn or move the soul: it turns and moves itself alone and whatever judgment it may think proper to make, such it makes by remaking for itself the things that present themselves to it

Take me and cast me where you will; I shall still be possessor of the divinity within me, serene and content.

It is a shame for the soul to be first to give way in this life, when thy body does not give way.

Be not as one that hath ten thousand years to live; death is nigh at hand: while thou livest, while thou hast time, be good.

There is no man so blessed that some who stand by his deathbed won't hail the occasion with delight.

That which is really beautiful has no need of anything; not more than law, not more than truth, not more than benevolence or modesty.

To live happily is an inward power of the soul.