To obey God is liberty.
No one is out of the reach of the temptation of vice unless he has banished it wholly from his breast; and no one has banished it wholly until he has put wisdom in its stead.
Great is the praise if man is helpful to man. We admonish you to extend a hand to the shipwrecked; to point out the way to the lost; to share your bread with the hungry.
No one ever renders a service to another without also rendering a service to himself.
Often what is given is a small matter; what follows from it, a great one.
When we reason upon the immortality of the soul, we do not regard as of little weight the universal belief of men who either fear or revere the gods of the lower world.
That day which thou dreadest as if it were thy last is the day of the birth into eternity.
A time will come that shall unite us and bring us into each other’s company.
Then shall our soul have reason to rejoice because, freed from this darkness in which it is involved, it shall see the light, no longer with feeble vision, but in all the brightness of day, and it will have returned to its own heaven since it will again occupy the place which belongs to it by right of birth. Its origin calls it on high.
Let another begin a quarrel, but let reconciliation begin with thee.