Marcus Aurelius: “He who has not one and always the same object in life, cannot be one and the same all through his life.”

How small a part of the boundless and unfathomable time is assigned to every man, for it is very soon swallowed up in the eternal!

But it is inconsistent with honoring reason and God to be troubled because by death a man will be deprived of the other things.

But intellect in a peculiar manner tends to that which is of the same kin, and combines with it, and the feeling for communion is not interrupted.

There is one light of the sun, though it is interrupted by walls, mountains, and other things infinite.