If you wish to behold God, you may see Him in every object around; search in your breast, and you will find Him there. And if you do not yet perceive where He dwells, confute me, if you can, and say where He is not.

It is by no means a fact that death is the worst of all evils; when it comes it is an alleviation to mortals who are worn out with sufferings.

Prepare thy soul calmly to obey; such offering will be more acceptable to God than every other sacrifice.

Fortune is the best school of courage when she is fraught with anger, in the same way as winds and tempests are the school of the sailorboy.

If you wish to behold God, you may see Him in every object around; search in your breast, and you will find Him there. And if you do not yet perceive where He dwells, confute me, if you can, and say where He is not.

Every noble acquisition is attended with its risks; he who fears to encounter the one must not expect to obtain the other.

If the internal griefs of every man could be read, written on his forehead, how many who now excite envy would appear to be the objects of pity?