There is a noble manner of being poor, and who does not know it will never be rich.
He who receives a benefit with gratitude, repays the first installment of it.
Our plans miscarry because they have no aim.
The soul has this proof of divinity: that divine things delight it.
The mind that is anxious about future events is miserable.
Nothing is so false as human life, nothing so treacherous. God knows no one would have accepted it as a gift, if it had not been given without our knowledge.