Think of what you have rather than of what you lack. Of the things you have, select the best and then reflect how eagerly you would have sought them if you did not have them.

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

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

Even while a thing is in the act of coming into existence, some part of it has already ceased to be.

I search after truth, by which man never yet was harmed.

We are too much accustomed to attribute to a single cause that which is the product of several, and the majority of our controversies come from that.

Search men's governing principles, and consider the wise, what they shun and what they cleave to.