And have you not received faculties which will enable you to bear all that happens to you? Have you not received greatness of spirit? Have you not received courage? Have you not received endurance?
Everything has two handles,-one by which it may be borne; another by which it cannot.
Events do not just happen, but arrive by appointment.
Ruin and recovering are both from within.
I am not eternity, but a man; a part of the whole, as an hour is of the day.
First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do.