Why do I not seek some real good one which I could feel, not one which I could display?
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.
It is true greatness to have in one the frailty of a man and the security of a god.
God is the universal substance in existing things. He comprises all things. He is the fountain of all being. In Him exists everything that is.
I will govern my life and thoughts as if the whole world were to see the one and read the other, for what does it signify to make anything a secret to my neighbor, when to God, who is the searcher of our hearts, all our privacies are open?
One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood.