A great step towards independence is a good-humored stomach, one that is willing to endure rough treatment.

All things are cause for either laughter or weeping.

Do what you should, not what you may.

Who shrinks from knowledge of his calamities but aggravates his fear; troubles half seen, shall torture all the more.

There is none made so great, but he may both need the help and service, and stand in fear of the power and unkindness, even of the meanest of mortals.

Leave in concealment what has long been concealed.

God has not revealed all things to man and has entrusted us with but a fragment of His mighty work. But He who directs all things, who has established and laid the foundation of the world, who has clothed Himself with Creation, He is greater and better than that which He has wrought. Hidden from our eyes, He can only be reached by the spirit.