Whatever is to make us better and happy God has placed either openly before us or close to us.

Greatness stands upon a precipice, and if prosperity carries a man never so little beyond his poise, it overbears and dashes him to pieces.

Bear in mind that you commit a crime by injuring even a wicked brother.

To things which you bear with impatience you should accustom yourself, and, by habit you will bear them well.

The final hour when we cease to exist does not itself bring death; it merely of itself completes the death-process. We reach death at that moment, but we have been a long time on the way.

He who seeks wisdom is a wise man; he who thinks he has found it is mad.

Lightning will wreck its displeasures not only upon pillars, trees, and sheep, but upon altars and temples, and let the sacrilegious go free.