Straightforwardness and simplicity are in keeping with goodness. The things that are essential are acquired with little bother; it is the luxuries that call for toil and effort. To want simply what is enough nowadays suggests to people primitiveness and squalor.

There is a noble manner of being poor, and who does not know it will never be rich.

If a man knows not to which port he sails, no wind is favorable.

True happiness is...to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future.

He that does good to another does good also to himself.

On entering a temple we assume all signs of reverence. How much more reverent then should we be before the heavenly bodies, the stars, the very nature of God!

When one is friend on himself, also is friend of everybody.