We generally get the evil we expect.

move not in your anger; it is like putting to sea in a tempest.

Love, like destiny, loves surprises.

what is unreasonable is irrefutable.

The great difference between voyages rests not with the ships, but with the people you meet on them.

Death is like the setting of the sun. The sun never sets; life never ceases. ... we think the sun sets, and it never ceases shining; we think our friends die, and they never cease living.

Don’t fail through defects of temper and over-sensitiveness at moments of trial. One of the great helps to success is to be cheerful; to go to work with a full sense of life; to be determined to put hindrances out of the way; to prevail over them and to get the mastery. Above all things else, be cheerful; there is no beatitude for the despairing.