The great pilot can sail even when his canvass is rent.
Indolence is stagnation; employment is life.
I will govern my life and thoughts as if the whole world were to see the one and read the other, for what does it signify to make anything a secret to my neighbor, when to God, who is the searcher of our hearts, all our privacies are open?
Lack of desire is the greatest riches.
You cease to be afraid when you cease to hope; for hope is accompanied by fear.
How great would be our peril if our slaves began to number us!