All living souls welcome whatever they are ready to cope with; all else they ignore, or pronounce to be monstrous and wrong, or deny to be possible.

Habit is stronger than reason

The aim of life is some way of living, as flexible and gentle as human nature; so that ambition may stoop to kindness, and philosophy to condor and humor. Neither prosperity nor empire nor heaven can be worth winning at the price of a virulent temper

Decide on what you think is right, and stick to it.

The valor that struggles is better than the weakness that endures.

We should not look back unless it is to derive useful lessons from past errors, and for the purpose of profiting by dearly bought experience.