Each man's life is a kind of campaign, and a long and complicated one at that. You have to maintain the character of a soldier, and do each separate act at the bidding of the General.

Neither should a ship rely on one small anchor, nor should life rest on a single hope.

Any one thing in the creation is sufficient to demonstrate a Providence to a humble and grateful mind.

Nothing truly stops you. Nothing truly holds you back. For your own will is always within your control.

Seek not the good in external things;seek it in yourselves.

Avoid banquets which are given by strangers an ignorant persons. But if there is ever occasion to join them, let your attention be carefully fixed, that you slip not into the manner of the vulgar (the uninstructed).

It is not he who reviles or strikes you who insults you, but your opinion that these things are insulting.