If you do not wish to be prone to anger, do not feed the habit; give it nothing which may tend to its increase.

Nothing great is created suddenly, any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig.

It is impossible for a man to learn what he thinks he already knows.

Know you not that a good man does nothing for appearance sake, but for the sake of having done right?

You bear God within you, poor wretch, and know it not.

To the rational being only the irrational is unendurable, but the rational is endurable.

We need to regularly stop and take stock; to sit down and determine within ourselves which things are worth valuing and which things are not; which risks are worth the cost and which are not. Even the most confusing or hurtful aspects of life can be made more tolerable by clear seeing and by choice.