The greatest man is he who chooses right with the most invincible resolution; who resists to sorest temptation from within and without; who bears the heaviest burdens cheerfully; who is calmest in storms, and most fearless under menaces and frowns; whose reliance on truth, on virtue, and on God is most unfaltering.

That is never too often repeated, which is never sufficiently learned.

No wind blows in favor of a ship without direction.

It is easier to exclude harmful passions than to rule them, and to deny them admittance than to control them after they have been admitted.

If you wish to be loved, love.

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.

He who forbids not sin when he may, commands it