Act nothing in a furious passion. It's putting to sea in a storm.
The bravest sight in the world is to see a great man struggling against adversity.
Circumstances are the rulers of the weak they are but the instruments of the wise.
Eureka! I've got it.
Between two worlds life hovers like a star, twixt night and morn, upon the horizon's verge.
To be uncertain is to be uncomfortable, but to be certain is to be ridiculous.
Ambition is not what man does... but what man would do.
Happiness does not lie in happiness, but in the achievement of it.
To see your drama clearly is to be liberated from it.
There lies at the back of every creed something terrible and hard for which the worshipper may one day be required to suffer.
You don't save a pitcher for tomorrow. Tomorrow, it may rain.
Neither the sun nor death can be looked at with a steady eye
It is a good rule to face difficulties at the time they arise and not allow them to increase unacknowledged.