Permit no hour to go by without it due improvement.
Renounce all things, and thou shalt find all things; give up thy lust, and thou shalt find rest.
Be at peace with yourself first and then you will be able to bring peace to others.
It is much safer to obey than to rule.
Peace and happiness are what you covet, but these are only to be obtained by labor.
The reflections on a day well spent furnish us with joys more pleasing than ten thousand triumphs.