Expecting is the greatest impediment to living. In anticipation of tomorrow, it loses today.

Enjoy present pleasures in such a way as not to injure future ones.

Every one has time if he likes. Business runs after nobody: people cling to it of their own free will and think that to be busy is a proof of happiness.

Fire proves gold, adversity proves men.

Tranqility is a certain quality of mind, which no condition or fortune can either exalt or depress.

Nature has made us passive, and to suffer is our lot. While we are in the flesh every man has his chain and his clog; only it is looser and lighter to one man than to another, and he is more at ease who takes it up and carries it than he who drags it.

In whatever direction you turn, you will see God coming to meet you; nothing is void of him, he himself fills all his work.