Enjoy the blessings of this day, if God sends them; and the evils of it bear patiently and sweetly: for this day only is ours, we are dead to yesterday, and we are not yet born to the morrow.

All dreams reflect inborn creativity and ability to face and solve life's problems.

Humility is like a tree, whose root when it sets deepest in the earth rises higher, and spreads fairer and stands surer, and lasts longer, and every step of its descent is like a rib of iron.

To secure a contented spirit, measure your desires by your fortune, and not your fortune by your desires.

A religion without mystery must be a religion without God.

When thou receivest praise, take it indifferently, and return it to God, the giver of the gift, or blesser of the action.

Friendship is the allay of our sorrows, the ease of our passions, the discharge of our oppressions, the sanctuary to our calamities, the counselor of our doubts, the clarity of our minds.