Everyone has a fair turn to be as great as he pleases.
Patient waiting is often the highest way of doing God's will.
The road to heaven lies as near by water as by land.
Perpetual pushing and assurance put a difficulty out of countenance and make a seeming difficulty gives way.
Fortitude implies a firmness and strength of mind, that enables us to do and suffer as we ought. It rises upon an opposition, and, like a river, swells the higher for having its course stopped.
By reading a man does, as it were, antedate his life, and make himself contemporary with the ages past; and this way of running up beyond one's nativity is better than Plato's pre-existence.