"Is God willing to prevent evil, but not able? Then he is not omnipotent. Is he able, but not willing? Then he is malevolent. Is he both able and willing? Then whence cometh evil? Is he neither able nor willing? Then why call him God?"
"Empty is the argument of the philosopher which does not relieve any human suffering."
"Death, therefore, the most awful of evils, is nothing to us, seeing that, when we are, death is not come, and, when death is come, we are not."
"The wealth required by nature is limited and is easy to procure; but the wealth required by vain ideals extends to infinity."
"Of all the things which wisdom provides to make us entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship."
"He who is not satisfied with a little, is satisfied with nothing ."