Familiarity reduces the greatness of things.

We haven't time to spare to hear whether it was between Italy and Sicily that he ran into a storm or somewhere outside the world we know-when every day we're running into our own storms, spiritual storms, and driven by vice into all the troubles that Ulysses ever knew.

The sovereign good of man is a mind that subjects all things to itself and is itself subject to nothing; such a man's pleasures are modest and reserved, and it may be a question whether he goes to heaven, or heaven comes to him; for a good man is influenced by God Himself, and has a kind of divinity within him.

Constant exposure to dangers will breed contempt for them.

A large part of mankind is angry not with the sins, but with the sinners.

Epileptics know by signs when attacks are imminent and take precautions accordingly; we must do the same in regard to anger

When you see a man in distress, recognize him as a fellow man.