It may be only glory that we seek here, but I persuade myself that, as long as we remain here, that is right. Another glory awaits us in heaven and he who reaches there will not wish even to think of earthly fame.

It is better to will the good than to know the truth.

While life is in your body, you have the rein of all thoughts in your hands.

I desire that death find me ready and writing, or if it please Christ, praying and intears.

How difficult it is to save the bark of reputation from the rocks of ignorance.

I rejoiced in my progress, mourned my weaknesses, and commiserated the universal instability of human conduct.

Events appear sad, pleasant, or painful, not because they are so in reality, but because we believe them to be so and the light in which we look at them depends upon our own judgment.