If you pursue good with labor, the labor passes away but the good remains; if you pursue evil with pleasure, the pleasure passes away and the evil remains.

All pain is either severe or slight, if slight, it is easily endured; if severe, it will without doubt be brief.

Philosophy is the true mother of science.

Nobody can give you wiser advice than yourself; you will never err if you listen to your own suggestions.

There are gems of thought that are ageless and eternal.

If anyone cannot feel the power of God when he looks upon the stars, then I doubt whether he is capable of feeling at all. From the enduring wonder of the heavens flows all grace and power. If anyone thinks it is mindless then he himself must be out of his mind.

The mere act of believing that some wrongful course of action constitutes an advantage is pernicious.