The chief beginning of evil is goodness in excess.
If you want to live your whole life free from pain you must become either a god or else a corpse. Consider other men's troubles and that will comfort you.
Nothing has happened to you unless you make much of it.
It is as easy to draw back a stone thrown with force from the hand, as to recall a word once spoken.
The school of hard knocks is an accelerated curriculum.
We live, not as we wish to, but as we can.