A consciousness of wrongdoing is the first step to salvation...you have to catch yourself doing it before you can correct it.

The true felicity of life is to be free from anxieties and pertubations; to understand and do our duties to God and man, and to enjoy the present without any serious dependence on the future.

Golden roofs break men's rest.

Let him that hath done the good office conceal it; let him that received it disclose it.

He who is brave is free.

To rule yourself is the ultimate power

Human affairs are like a chess-game: only those who do not take it seriously can be called good players. Life is like an earthen pot: only when it is shattered, does it manifest its emptiness.