While life is in your body, you have the rein of all thoughts in your hands.
Great errors seldom originate but with men of great minds.
Nothing mortal is enduring, and there is nothing sweet which does not presently end in bitterness.
I would have preferred to have been born in any other time than our own.
Hitherto your eyes have been darkened and you have looked too much, yes, far too much, upon the things of earth. If these so much delight you what shall be your rapture when you lift your gaze to things eternal!
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.