It is great wealth to a soul to live frugally with a contented mind.
The fall of dropping water wears away the stone.
The falling drops at last will wear the stone.
Though the dungeon, the scourge, and the executioner be absent, the guilty mind can apply the goad and scorch with blows.
And life is given to none freehold, but it is leasehold for all.
Sweet it is, when on the high seas the winds are lashing the waters, to gaze from the land on another's struggles.
So potent was religion in persuading to evil deeds.
From the very fountain of enchantment there arises a taste of bitterness to spread anguish amongst the flowers.
Pleasant it to behold great encounters of warfare arrayed over the plains, with no part of yours in peril.
Such evil deeds could religion prompt.
The drops of rain make a hole in the stone, not by violence, but by oft falling.
There is no place in nature for extinction.
Life is one long struggle in the dark.
Such are the heights of wickedness to which men are driven by religion.
Were a man to order his life by the rules of true reason, a frugal substance joined to a contented mind is for him great riches.
The greatest wealth is to live content with little, for there is never want where the mind is satisfied.
The sum of all sums is eternity.
Victory puts us on a level with heaven.
What is food to one man is bitter poison to others.
