Give yourself fully to your endeavors. Decide to construct your character through excellent actions and determine to pay the price of a worthy goal. The trials you encounter will introduce you to your strengths.

The materials are indifferent, but the use we make of them is not a matter of indifference.

All philosophy lies in two words, sustain and abstain.

What ought one to say then as each hardship comes? I was practicing for this, I was training for this.

It is your own convictions which compels you; that is, choice compels choice.

If virtue promises happiness, prosperity and peace, then progress in virtue is progress in each of these for to whatever point the perfection of anything brings us, progress is always an approach toward it.

Every difficulty in life presents us with an opportunity to turn inward and to invoke our own submerged inner resources. The trials we endure can and should introduce us to our strengths.