two souls, alas, are housed within my breast, and each will wrestle for the mastery there.

How often do I lull my seething blood to rest, for you have never seen anything so unsteady, so uncertain, as this heart.

Behavior is the mirror in which everyone shows their image.

Money lost, something lost. Honor lost, much lost. Courage lost, everything lost-better you were never born

Hell begins the day that God grants you the vision to see all that you could have done, should have done, and would have done, but did not do.

The modern age has a false sense of superiority, because of the great mass of data at its disposal. But the valid criterion of distinction is rather the extent to which man knows how to form and master the material at his command.

Take care of your body with steadfast fidelity. The soul must see through these eyes alone, and if they are dim, the whole world is clouded.