What is death? A scary mask. Take it off-see, it doesn't bite.

We must ever bear in mind --that apart from the will there is nothing good or bad, and that we must not try to anticipate or to direct events, but merely to accept them with intelligence.

Whenever you are angry, be assured that it is not only a present evil, but that you have increased a habit.

Renew every day your conversation with God: Do this even in preference to eating. Think more often of God than you breathe.

Ruin and recovering are both from within.

Difficulty shows what men are.

It doesn't take much to lose everything, just a little departure from reason