You cease to be afraid when you cease to hope; for hope is accompanied by fear.

Do not grudge your brother his rest. He has at last become free, safe and immortal, and ranges joyous through the boundless heavens; he has left this low-lying region and has soared upwards to that place which receives in its happy bosom the souls set free from the chains of matter. Your brother has not lost the light of day, but has obtained a more enduring light. He has not left us, but has gone on before.

The miserable are sacred.

Precepts are the rules by which we ought to square our lives. When they are contracted into sentences, they strike the affections; whereas admonition is only blowing of the coal.

What progress have I made? I am beginning to be my own friend. That is progress indeed

He who would arrive at the appointed end must follow a single road and not wander through many ways.

I require myself not to be equal to the best, but to be better then the bad.