Being mortal, never pray for an untroubled life. Rather, ask the God to give you an enduring heart.
Nothing has happened to you unless you make much of it.
He who labors diligently need never despair for all things are accomplished by diligence and labor.
The school of hard knocks is an accelerated curriculum.
At times discretion should be thrown aside, and with the foolish we should play the fool.
Everything is destroyed by its own particular vice: the destructive power resides within. Rust destroys iron, moths destroy clothes, the worm eats away the wood; but greatest of all evils is envy, impious habitant of corrupt souls, which ever was, is, and shall be a consuming disease.