God is near you, is with you, is inside you.
The way to wickedness is always through wickedness.
The true felicity of life is to be free from anxieties and pertubations; to understand and do our duties to God and man, and to enjoy the present without any serious dependence on the future.
It should be our care not so much to live a long life as a satisfactory one.
Anger is like those ruins which smash themselves on what they fall.
There is the need for someone against which our characters can measure themselves. Without a ruler, you won't make the crooked straight.