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.

Remember that you are an actor in a drama of such sort as the Author chooses: if short, then in a short one; if long, then in a long one. If it be His pleasure that you should enact a poor man, or a cripple, or a ruler, or a private citizen, see that you act it well. For this is your business, to act well the given part. But to choose it belongs to Another.

We cannot choose our external circumstances, but we can always choose how we respond to them.

Circumstances don't make the man, they only reveal him to himself.

Once you know who you are and to whom you are linked, you will know what to do

It's so simple really: If you say you're going to do something, do it. If you start something, finish it.

These are the signs of a wise man: to reprove nobody, to praise nobody, to blame nobody, nor even to speak of himself or his own merits.