If I and my two children cannot move the gods, the gods must have their reasons.

It is not the body, nor the personality that is the true self. The true self is eternal. Even on the point of death we can say to ourselves, "my true self is free. I cannot be contained."

Leave the wrong done by another where the wrong arose.

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

All that is from the gods is full of Providence.

To my great-grandfather I owed the advice to dispense with the education of the schools and have good masters at home instead - and to realize that no expense should be grudged for this purpose.

Let no act be done without purpose.