Unhappy is the soul enslaved by the love of anything that is mortal.

We enjoy some gratification when our good friends die; for though their death leaves us in sorrow, we have the consolatory assurance that they are beyond the ills by which in this life even the best of people are broken down or corrupted.

No eulogy is due to him who simply does his duty and nothing more.

The human race is inquisitive about other people's lives, but negligent to correct their own.

What thou meanest by seizing the whole earth; but because I do it with a petty ship, I am called a robber, whilst thou who dost it with a great fleet art styled emperor.

The wicked exist in this world either to be converted or that through them the good may exercise patience.

Faith is to believe what you do not see; the reward of this faith is to see what you believe.