The important thing about a problem is not its solution, but the strength we gain in finding the solution

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.

Courage leads to heaven; fear leads to death.

No book can be so good, as to be profitable when negligently read.

The display of grief makes more demands than grief itself. How few men are sad in their own company.

This life is only a prelude to eternity.

The law of the pleasure in having done anything for another is, that the one almost immediately forgets having given, and the other remembers eternally having received.