There are 1,000 lessons in defeat. But only one in victory.
Whatever heaven ordains is best.
Clever talk can confound the workings of virtue, just as small impatiences can confound great projects.
If you don't know how to live, why wonder about death?
The more man meditates upon good thoughts, the better will be his world and the world at large.
I was complaining that I had no shoes till I met a man who had no feet.