Grow angry slowly - there's plenty of time.

There is a good ear, in some men, that draws supplies to virtue out of very indifferent nutriment.

To different minds, the same world is a hell, and a heaven depending on whether they compare it to something better and so feel disappointed and bitter or something worse and so feel relieved and grateful.

The most active lives have so much routine as to preclude progress almost equally with the most inactive.

Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year. No man has learned anything rightly, until he knows that every day is Doomsday.

If you put a chain around the neck of a slave, the other end fastens itself around your own.

[D]ivine Providence... keeps the universe open in every direction to the soul.