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.

Abstinence is easier than temperance.

One hand washes the other.

Whereas a prolonged life is not necessarily better, a prolonged death is necessarily worse.

If I only have the will to be grateful, I am so.

I know that nothing comes to pass but what God appoints; our fate is decreed, and things do not happen by chance, but every man's portion of joy and sorrow is predetermined.

A dwarf can stand on a mountain, he's no taller.