The sovereign good of man is a mind that subjects all things to itself and is itself subject to nothing; such a man's pleasures are modest and reserved, and it may be a question whether he goes to heaven, or heaven comes to him; for a good man is influenced by God Himself, and has a kind of divinity within him.

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

The great blessings of mankind are within us and within our reach; but we shut our eyes, and, like people in the dark, we fall foul upon the very thing we search for, without finding it.

Never to wrong others takes one a long way towards peace of mind.

The vices of idleness are only to be shaken off by active employment.

These individulas have riches just as we say that we 'have a fever,' when really the fever has us.

Self-denial is the best riches.