What must be shall be; and that which is a necessity to him that struggles, is little more than choice to him that is willing.

A man's as miserable as he thinks he is.

We become wiser by adversity; prosperity destroys our appreciation of the right.

Fidelity purchased with money, money can destroy.

It is easy enough to arouse in a listener a desire for what is honorable; for in every one of us nature has laid the foundations or sown the seeds of the virtues. We are born to them all, all of us, and when a person comes along with the necessary stimulus, then those qualities of the personality are awakened, so to speak, from their slumber.

Happy is the man who can endure the highest and lowest fortune. He who has endured such vicissitudes with equanimity has deprived misfortune of its power.

You have to persevere and fortify your pertinacity until the will to good becomes a disposition to good.