Confident because of our caution

It is no easy thing for a principle to become a man's own unless each day he maintains it and works it out in his life.

If any be unhappy, let him remember that he is unhappy by reason of himself alone. For God hath made all men to enjoy felicity and constancy of good.

Your master is he who controls that on which you have set your heart or wish to avoid.

Unremarkable lives are marked by the fear of not looking capable when trying something new.

It is impossible that happiness, and yearning for what is not present, should ever be united.

It is difficulties that show what men are. For the future, in case of any difficulty, remember that God, like a gymnastic trainer, has pitted you against a rough antagonist. For what end? That you may be an Olympic conqueror; and this cannot be without toil.