True enjoyment comes from activity of the mind and exercise of the body the two are ever united.
Coercion may prevent many transgressions but it robs even actions which are legal of a part of their beauty. Freedom may lead to many transgressions, but it lends even to vices a less ignoble form.
However great an evil immorality may be, we must not forget that it is not without its beneficial consequences. It is only through extremes that men can arrive at the middle path of wisdom and virtue.
It is almost more important how a person takes his fate than what it is.
Only what we have wrought into our character during life can we take away with us.
Faith can be interested in results only, for a truth once recognized as such puts an end to the believer's thinking.
When we ... devote ourselves to the strict and unsparing performance of duty ihen happiness comes of itself.
Coercion may prevent many transgressions; but it robs even actions which are legal of a part of their beauty. Freedom may lead to many transgressions, but it lends even to vices a less ignoble form.
I am more and more convinced that our happiness or our unhappiness depends far more on the way we meet the events of life than on the nature of those events themselves.
When we ... devote ourselves to the strict and unsparing performance of duty then happiness comes of itself.