I never come back home with the same moral character I went out with; something or other becomes unsettled where I had achieved internal peace; some one or other of the things I had put to flight reappears on the scene.

Dangerous is wrath concealed. Hatred proclaimed doth lose its chance of wreaking vengeance.

See how many are better off than you are, but consider how many are worse.

If you really want to escape the things that harass you, what you're needing is not to be in a different place but to be a different person.

Not to feel one's misfortunes is not human, not to bear them is not manly.

To the person who does not know where he wants to go there is no favorable wind.

A good mind is a lord of a kingdom.