As the mother's womb holds us for ten months, making us ready, not for the womb itself, but for life, just so, through our lives, we are making ourselves ready for another birth...Therefore look forward without fear to that appointed hour- the last hour of the body, but not of the soul...That day, which you fear as being the end of all things, is the birthday of your eternity.
Now we are not merely to stick knowledge on to the soul: we must incorporate it into her; the soul should not be sprinkled with knowledge but steeped in it.
A man's ability cannot possibly be of one sort and his soul of another. If his soul be well-ordered, serious and restrained, his ability also is sound and sober. Conversely, when the one degenerates, the other is contaminated.
If sensuality were happiness, beasts were happier than men; but human felicity is lodged in the soul, not in the flesh.
Not a soul takes thought how well he may live- only how long: yet a good life might be everybody's, a long one can be nobody's.
The mind is never right but when it is at peace within itself; the soul is in heaven even while it is in the flesh, if it be purged of its natural corruptions, and taken up with divine thoughts, and contemplations.
The soul has this proof of divinity: that divine things delight it.
You need a change of soul rather than a change of climate.
To be always fortunate, and to pass through life with a soul that has never known sorrow, is to be ignorant of one half of nature.
