It was high counsel that I once heard given to a young person, 'always do what you are afraid to do.'

Be lord of a day, through wisdom and justice, and you can put up your history books.

Women stand related to beautiful nature around us, and the enamoured youth mixes their form with moon and stars, with woods and waters, and the pomp of summer. They heal us of awkwardness by their words and looks. We observe their intellectual influence on the most serious student. They refine and clear his mind: teach him to put a pleasing method into what is dry and difficult.

Why needs a man be rich? Why must he have horses, fine garments, handsome apartments, access to public houses, and places of amusement? Only for want of thought.

He is a good man, who can receive a gift well. We are either glad or sorry at a gift, and both emotions are unbecoming.

The height of the pinnacle is determined by the breadth of the base.

The wise man in the storm prays God not for safety from danger but for deliverance from fear. It is the storm within which endangers him[,] not the storm without.