It is not the man who has little, but he who desires more, that is poor.

We should live as if we were in public view, and think, too, as if someone could peer into the inmost recesses of our hearts-which someone can!

Let us fight the battle-retreat from the things that attract us and rouse ourselves to meet the things that actually attack us.

The evil which assails us is not in the localities we inhabit but in ourselves. We lack strength to endure the least task, being incapable of suffering pain, powerless to enjoy pleasure, impatient with everything. How many invoke death when, after having tried every sort of change, they find themselves reverting to the same sensations, unable to discover any new experience.

They who have light in themselves will not revolve as satellites.

Behold a contest worthy of a god, a brave man matched in conflict with adversity.

The path of increase is slow, but the road to ruin is rapid.