“If we think that heaven is our country, we should send our wealth thither rather than reatin it here, where on our sudden daparture it will be lost to us
“Much may be done in those little shreds and patches of time which every day produces, and which most men throw away
“Our real blessings often appear to us in the shape of pains, losses and disappointments; but let us have patience and we soon shall see them in their proper figures.
“There are only two people who can tell you the truth about yourself - an enemy who has lost his temper and a friend who loves you dearly
“To cheat oneself out of love is the most terrible deception; it is an eternal loss for which there is no reparation, either in time or in eternity
“It is the style of idealism to console itself for the loss of something old with the ability to gape at something new
“To a man of pleasure every moment appears to be lost, which partakes not of the vivacity of amusement