The whole duty of man is embraced in the two principles of abstinence and patience: temperance in prosperity, and patient courage in adversity.
Prosperity asks for fidelity; adversity exacts it.
It is quality rather than quantity that matters.
Let the weary at length possess quiet rest.
To the person who does not know where he wants to go there is no favorable wind.
We should conduct ourselves not as if we ought to live for the body, but as if we could not live without it.