“What good would it be to possess the whole universe if one were its only survivor?”

“Birth and ancestry, and that which we have not ourselves achieved, we can scarcely call our own”

“Death is not the end. There remains the litigation over the estate”

“If we think that heaven is our country, we should send our wealth thither rather than reatin it here, where on our sudden daparture it will be lost to us”

“Ordinary riches can be stolen, real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that cannot be taken from you.”

“In our good works nothing is our own”