Nothing is void of God, his work is everywhere his full of himself.
There is none made so great, but he may both need the help and service, and stand in fear of the power and unkindness, even of the meanest of mortals.
If thou art a man, admire those who attempt great things, even though they fail.
The good things of prosperity are to be wished but the good things that belong to adversity are to be admired.
As is a tale, so is life: not how long it is, but how good it is, is what matters.
There is nothing in the world so much admired as a man who knows how to bear unhappiness with courage.
Anger: an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured.
It is the superfluous things for which men sweat, - superfluous things that wear our togas theadbare, that force us to grow old in camp, that dash us upon foreign shores.
The first step in a person's salvation is knowledge of their sin.
I never come back home with the same moral character I went out with something or other becomes unsettled where I had achieved internal peace some one or other of the things I had put to flight reappe...
Health is the soul that animates all the enjoyments of life, which fade and are tasteless without it.
The heart is great which shows moderation in the midst of prosperity.
Wisdom allows nothing to be good that will not be so forever no man to be happy but he that needs no other happiness than what he has within himself no man to be great or powerful that is not master o...
So live with men as if God saw you and speak to God, as if men heard you.
A gift consists not in what is done or given, but in the intention of the giver or doer.
A physician is not angry at the intemperance of a mad patient, nor does he take it ill to be railed at by a man in fever. Just so should a wise man treat all mankind, as a physician does his patient,...
We can be thankful to a friend for a few acres, or a little money; and yet for the freedom and command of the whole earth, and for the great benefits of our being, our life, health, and reason, we loo...
We often want one thing and pray for another, not telling the truth even to the gods.
Why do I not seek some real good one which I could feel, not one which I could display?
I shall never be ashamed of citing a bad author if the line is good.