There is nothing in the world so much admired as a man who knows how to bear unhappiness with courage. 2.15K
Wisdom does not show itself so much in precept as in life – in firmness of mind and a mastery of appetite. It teaches us to do as well as to talk; and to make our words and actions all of a color. 575
Wisdom allows nothing to be good that will not be so forever; no man to be happy but he that needs no other happiness than what he has within himself; no man to be great or powerful that is not master of himself. 555
It makes a great deal of difference whether one wills not to sin or has not the knowledge to sin. 1.28K
