If a man does not know what port he is steering for, no wind is favorable to him.
We are more often frightened than hurt; and we suffer more from imagination than from reality.
We should every night call ourselves to an account: What infirmity have I mastered today? What passions opposed! What temptation resisted? What virtue acquired?
No evil propensity of the human heart is so powerful that it may not be subdued by discipline.
Failure changes for the better, success for the worse.
The road to learning by precept is long, but by example short and effective.
