Content may dwell in all stations. To be low but above contempt may be high enough to be happy.

Be substantially great in thyself, and more than thou appearest unto others.

I have tried if I could reach that great resolution . . . to be honest without a thought of Heaven or Hell.

Obstinacy in a bad cause is but constancy in a good.

If riches increase, let thy mind hold pace with them; and think it not enough to be liberal, but munificent.

By compassion we make others' misery our own, and so, by relieving them, we relieve ourselves also.

I have often admired the mystical way of Pythagoras, and the secret magick of numbers.