God has not revealed all things to man and has entrusted us with but a fragment of His mighty work. But He who directs all things, who has established and laid the foundation of the world, who has clothed Himself with Creation, He is greater and better than that which He has wrought. Hidden from our eyes, He can only be reached by the spirit.

It's all in your headJ you have the power to make things seem hard or easy or even amusing. The choice is yours.

It is not poverty that we praise, it is the man whom poverty cannot humble or bend.

It is man's duty to live in conformity with the divine will, and this means, firstly, bringing his life into line with 'nature's laws', and secondly, resigning himself completely and uncomplainingly to whatever fate may send him. Only by living thus, and not setting too high a value on things which can at any moment be taken away from him, can he discover that true, unshakeable peace and contentment to which ambition, luxury and above all avarice are among the greatest obstacles.

The display of grief makes more demands than grief itself. How few men are sad in their own company.

What else is nature but God?

To rule yourself is the ultimate power