If you sit in judgment, investigate, if you sit in supreme power, sit in command.

Abstinence is easier than temperance.

Expecting is the greatest impediment to living. In anticipation of tomorrow, it loses today.

It is another's fault if he be ungrateful, but it is mine if I do not give. To find one thankful man, I will oblige a great many that are not so.

Trifling trouble find utterance; deeply felt pangs are silent.

It is man's duty to live in conformity with the divine will, and this means, firstly, bringing his life into line with 'nature's laws', and secondly, resigning himself completely and uncomplainingly to whatever fate may send him. Only by living thus, and not setting too high a value on things which can at any moment be taken away from him, can he discover that true, unshakeable peace and contentment to which ambition, luxury and above all avarice are among the greatest obstacles.

For what else is Nature but God and the Divine Reason that pervades the whole universe and all its parts.