Let us train our minds to desire what the situation demands.
We should every night call ourselves to an account: What infirmity have I mastered today? What passions opposed! What temptation resisted? What virtue acquired?
Nothing is our except time.
Let us be brave in the face of adversity.
To keep oneself safe does not mean to bury oneself.
You can end love more easily than you can moderate it.
If a man does not know what port he is steering for, no wind is favorable to him.
There is no person so severely punished, as those who subject themselves to the whip of their own remorse.
Failure changes for the better, success for the worse.
No evil propensity of the human heart is so powerful that it may not be subdued by discipline.
It is the sign of a great mind to dislike greatness, and prefer things in measure to things in excess.
The road to learning by precept is long, but by example short and effective.
Courage is a scorner of things which inspire fear.
The conditions of conquest are always easy. We have but to toil awhile, endure awhile, believe always, and never turn back.
Unhappy is the man, though he rule the world, who doesn’t consider himself supremely blessed.
Courage leads starward, fear toward death.
What is the proper limit for wealth? It is, first, to have what is necessary; and, second, to have what is enough.
It is a great thing to know the season for speech and the season for silence.
It is wrong not to give a hand to the fallen. This right is common to the whole human race.
Unhappy is the man, though he rule the world, who doesn’t consider himself supremely blessed. In order to consider himself supremely blessed he must deeply understand that things could be much worse but aren’t! To not do that is to always be less happy than he could be.