Calamity is virtue's opportunity.
True love hates and will not bear delay.
You have to persevere and fortify your pertinacity until the will to good becomes a disposition to good.
The final hour when we cease to exist does not itself bring death; it merely of itself completes the death-process. We reach death at that moment, but we have been a long time on the way.
Accustom yourself to that which you bear ill, and you will bear it well.
Of war men ask the outcome, not the cause.