A short cut to riches is to subtract from our desires.

Alack our life, so beautiful to see, With how much ease life losest, in a day, What many years with pain and toil amassed!

Death is a sleep that ends our dreaming. Oh, that we may be allowed to wake before death wakes us.

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!

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

Reality is always the foe of famous names.

To be able to say how much love, is love but little.