Happy is the man who can endure the highest and lowest fortune. He who has endured such vicissitudes with equanimity has deprived misfortune of its power.
Let us bear with magnanimity whatever it is needful for us to bear.
Many things have fallen only to rise higher.
He who would do great things should not attempt them all alone.
The first proof of a well-ordered mind is to be able to pause and linger within itself.
Everything hangs on one's thinking.