Everything has two handles; the one soft and manageable, the other such as will not endure to be touched. If then your brother do you an injury, do not take it by the hot hard handle, by representing to yourself all the aggravating circumstances of the fact; but look rather on the soft side, and extenuate it as much as is possible, by considering the nearness of the relation, and the long friendship and familiarity between you--obligations to kindness which a single provocation ought not to dissolve. And thus you will take the accident by its manageable handle.

Happiness is an equivalent for all troublesome things.

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

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

Know, first, who you are, and then adorn yourself accordingly.

Wisdom means understanding without any doubt that circumstances do not rise to meet our expectations. Events happen as they may. People behave as they will.

It is difficulties that show what men are.