We are taught for the schoolroom not for life.
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.
Every guilty person is his own hangman.
You learn to know a pilot in a storm.
Poverty wants some, luxury many, and avarice all things.
The approach of liberty makes even an old man brave.
You must live for another if you wish to live for yourself.
Consider, when you are enraged at any one, what you would probably think if he should die during the dispute.
No untroubled day has ever dawned for me.
That is never too often repeated, which is never sufficiently learned.
Expecting is the greatest impediment to living. In anticipation of tomorrow, it loses today.
He who does not prevent a crime when he can, encourages it.
One must steer, not talk.
The display of grief makes more demands than grief itself. How few men are sad in their own company.
The first step in a person’s salvation is knowledge of their sin.
What is true belongs to me!
Nothing is void of God, his work is everywhere his full of himself.
It is often better not to see an insult than to avenge it.
This life is only a prelude to eternity.
Nothing becomes so offensive so quickly as grief. When fresh it finds someone to console it, but when it becomes chronic, it is ridiculed, and rightly.