A good person dyes events with his own color . . . and turns whatever happens to his own benefit.

He has committed the crime who profits by it.

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.

To rule yourself is the ultimate power

Philosophy is the art and law of life, and it teaches us what to do in all cases, and, like good marksmen, to hit the white at any distance.

Home joys are blessed of heaven.

No man is free who is a slave to the flesh.