"The mind that is anxious about the future is miserable"
"Shall I tell you what the real evil is? To cringe to the things that are called evils, to surrender to them our freedom, in defiance of which we ought to face any suffering"
"It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare, it is because we do not dare that they are difficult"
"So live with men as if God saw you and speak to God, as if men heard you"
"I will govern my life and thoughts as if the whole world were to see the one and read the other, for what does it signify to make anything a secret to my neighbor, when to God, who is the searcher of our hearts, all our privacies are open?"
"When an author is too meticulous about his style, you may presume that his mind is frivolous and his content flimsy"
"Whatever one of us blames in another, each one will find in his own heart"
"Whatever is well said by another, is mine"
"Whatever fortune has raised to a height, she has raised only to cast it down"
"What nature requires is obtainable, and within easy reach. It is for the superfluous we sweat"
"What is true belongs to me!"
"What difference does it make how much you have? What you do not have amounts to much more"
"We should give as we would receive, cheerfully, quickly, and without hesitation; for there is no grace in a benefit that sticks to the fingers"
"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"
"One must steer, not talk"
"One crime has to be concealed by another"
"Nothing is void of God, his work is everywhere his full of himself"
"Nothing is so wretched or foolish as to anticipate misfortunes. What madness is it to be expecting evil before it comes"
"Nothing becomes so offensive so quickly as grief. When fresh it finds someone to console it, but when it becomes chronic, it is ridiculed, and rightly"
"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"
"Consider, when you are enraged at any one, what you would probably think if he should die during the dispute"
"Call it Nature, Fate, Fortune; all these are names of the one and selfsame God"
"If a man knows not what harbor he seeks, any wind is the right wind"
"He that does good to another does good also to himself"
"As long as you live, keep learning how to live"
"As is a tale, so is life: not how long it is, but how good it is, is what matters"
"Anger: an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured"
