The mind, unless it is pure and holy, cannot see God.

Cling tooth and nail to the following rule: Not to give in to adversity, never to trust prosperity, and always to take full note of fortune's habit of behaving just as she pleases, treating her as if she were actually going to do everything it is in her power to do. Whatever you have been expecting for some time comes as less of a shock.

The greatest loss of time is delay and expectation, which depend upon the future. We let go the present, which we have in our power, and look forward to that which depends upon chance, and so relinquish a certainty for an uncertainty.

We have been born under a monarchy; to obey God is freedom.

Hardly a man will you find who could live with his door open.

You learn to know a pilot in a storm.

Life is never incomplete if it is an honorable one. At whatever point you leave life, if you leave it in the right way, it is whole.