The great pilot can sail even when his canvass is rent.

The display of grief makes more demands than grief itself. How few men are sad in their own company.

We are more easily led part by part to an understanding of the whole. -Facilius per partes in cognitionem totius adducimur

You are your choices.

It is only the surprise and newness of the thing which makes that misfortune terrible which by premeditation might be made easy to us. For that which some people make light by sufferance, others do by foresight.

To rule yourself is the ultimate power

We are taught for the schoolroom, not for life.