A good character is the only guarantee of everlasting, carefree happiness.

The true felicity of life is to be free from anxieties and pertubations; to understand and do our duties to God and man, and to enjoy the present without any serious dependence on the future.

Life is most delightful on the downward slope.

We ought to take outdoor walks, to refresh and raise our spirits by deep breathing in the open air.

Epicurus says that you should rather have regard to the company with whom you eat and drink, than to what you eat and drink.

The mind is never right but when it is at peace within itself; the soul is in heaven even while it is in the flesh, if it be purged of its natural corruptions, and taken up with divine thoughts, and contemplations.

There is no easy way from the earth to the stars.