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.

Certain laws have not been written, but they are more fixed than all the written laws.

For what else is Nature but God and the Divine Reason that pervades the whole universe and all its parts.

Anyone can stop a man's life, but no one his death; a thousand doors open on to it.

No man is more unhappy than he who never faces adversity. For he is not permitted to prove himself.

Fidelity bought with money is overcome by money.

Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.