We are often prophets to others only because we are our own historians.
By becoming unhappy, we sometimes learn how to be less so.
The chains which cramp us most are those which weigh on us least.
I can understand the things that afflict mankind, but I often marvel at God those which console. An atom may wound, but God alone can heal.
Youth should be a savings bank.
Pride dries the tears of anger and vexation; humility, those of grief. The one is indignant that we should suffer; the other calms us by the reminder that we deserve nothing else.