"We should every night call ourselves to an account: what infirmity have I mastered today? what passions opposed? what temptation resisted? what virtue acquired? Our vices will abate of themselves if they be brought every day to the shrift"
"There is nothing in the world so much admired as a man who knows how to bear unhappiness with courage"
"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"
"There is no person so severely punished, as those who subject themselves to the whip of their own remorse"
"There is no great genius without some touch of madness"
"There is no delight in owning anything unshared"
"There is as much greatness of mind in acknowledging a good turn, as in doing it"
"There is a noble manner of being poor, and who does not know it will never be rich"
"There are more things to alarm us than to harm us, and we suffer more often in apprehension than reality"
"Love in its essence is spiritual fire"
"Light troubles speak; the weighty are struck dumb"
"Life's like a play: it's not the length, but the excellence of the acting that matters"
"Life, if well lived, is long enough"
"Life is warfare"
"Life is the fire that burns and the sun that gives light. Life is the wind and the rain and the thunder in the sky. Life is matter and is earth, what is and what is not, and what beyond is in Eternity"
"Let us train our minds to desire what the situation demands"
"It's not because things are difficult that we dare not venture. It's because we dare not venture that they are difficult"
"It makes a great deal of difference whether one wills not to sin or has not the knowledge to sin"
"It is a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness"
"In war, when a commander becomes so bereft of reason and perspective that he fails to understand the dependence of arms on Divine guidance, he no longer deserves victory"
"In war there is no prize for runner-up"
"If you judge, investigate"
"If thou art a man, admire those who attempt great things, even though they fail"
"If you would judge, understand"
"If you wished to be loved, love"
"That is never too often repeated, which is never sufficiently learned"
