We cannot choose our external circumstances, but we can always choose how we respond to them.

Nature hath given men one tongue but two ears, that we may hear from others twice as much as we speak.

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

We should not moor a ship with one anchor, or our life with one hope.

To a longer and worse life, a shorter and better is by all means to be preferred.

Contentment comes not so much from great wealth as from few wants.

Remember that you are an actor in a drama of such sort as the Author chooses: if short, then in a short one; if long, then in a long one. If it be His pleasure that you should enact a poor man, or a cripple, or a ruler, or a private citizen, see that you act it well. For this is your business, to act well the given part. But to choose it belongs to Another.