All my life I have been seeking to climb out of the pit of my besetting sins and I cannot do it and I never will unless a hand is let down to draw me up.

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.

The bravest sight in the world is to see a great man struggling against adversity.

What narrow innocence it is for one to be good only according to the law.

No tree becomes rooted and sturdy unless many a wind assails it. For by its very tossing it tightens its grip and plants its roots more securely; the fragile trees are those that have grown in a sunny valley.

The sun shines even on the wicked.

There is nothing wrong with changing a plan when the situation has changed.