All souls must undergo transmigration and the souls of men revolve like a stone which is thrown from a sling, so many turns before the final release... Only those who have not completed their perfection must suffer the wheel of rebirth by being reborn into another human body.

The gaurdian angels of life sometimes fly so high as to be beyond our sight, but they are always looking down upon us.

Cheerfulness is the atmosphere in which all things thrive

How calmly may we commit ourselves to the hands of Him who bears up the world

Sleep, riches, and health, to be truly enjoyed, must be interrupted

No author can be as moral as his work and no preacher as pious as his sermons.

Strong character is brought out by change, weak ones by permanence.

The miracles of earth are the laws of heaven

As a rule, for no one does life drag more disagreeably than for him who tries to speed it up

The test of an enjoyment is the remembrance which it leaves behind