All situations in which the interrelationships between extremes are involved are the most interesting and instructive.

However great an evil immorality may be, we must not forget that it is not without its beneficial consequences. It is only through extremes that men can arrive at the middle path of wisdom and virtue.

True enjoyment comes from activity of the mind and exercise of the body; the two are ever united.

I am more and more convinced that our happiness or unhappiness depends far more on the way we meet the events of life, than on the nature of those events themselves.

True enjoyment comes from activity of the mind and exercise of the body; the two are ever united.

How a person masters his fate is more important than what his fate is.