Economy is in itself a great source of revenue.

The greatest wealth is a poverty of desires.

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

The miserable are sacred.

Precepts are like seeds; they are little things which do much good; if the mind which receives them has a disposition, it must not be doubted that his part contributes to the generation, and adds much to that which has been collected.

What if a man save my life with a draught that was prepared to poison me? The providence of the issue does not at all discharge the obliquity of the intent. And the same reason holds good even in religion itself. It is not the incense, or the offering that is acceptable to God, but the purity and devotion of the worshipper.

Something that can never be learnt too thoroughly can never be said too often.