Light troubles speak; the weighty are struck dumb.

Philosophy takes as her aim the state of happiness...she shows us what are real and what are only apparent evils. She strips men's minds of empty thinking, bestows a greatness that is solid and administers a check to greatness where it is puffed up and all an empty show; she sees that we are left no doubt about the difference between what is great and what is bloated.

The first proof of a well-ordered mind is to be able to pause and linger within itself.

It's the admirer and the watcher who provoke us to all the inanities we commit.

That grief is light which can take counsel.

As gratitude is a necessary, and a glorious virtue, so also it is an obvious, a cheap, and an easy one; so obvious that wherever there is life there is a place for it; so cheap, that the covetous man may be gratified without expense, and so easy that the sluggard may be so likewise without labor.

The first petition that we are to make to Almighty God is for a good conscience, the next for health of mind, and then of body.