"Time heals griefs and quarrels, for we change and are no longer the same persons."

"In the arithmetic of human affection, the more you give, the more you retain. For where clarity resides, peace inevitably follows — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"If we must not act save on a certainty, we ought not to act on religion, for it is not certain. But how many things we do on an uncertainty, sea voyages, battles!"

"It is the heart which perceives God and not the reason. That is what faith is: God perceived by the heart, not by the reason."

"Rise early, act with intent, and let your accomplishments speak with silent authority. Reflect upon this whenever doubt clouds your horizon."

"The highest expression of strength is tenderness toward the vulnerable. Reflect upon this whenever doubt clouds your horizon."

"Although men are accused of not knowing their own weakness, yet perhaps few know their own strength. It is in men as in soils, where sometimes there is a vein of gold which the owner knows not of."

"True authority is measured not by subjugation, but by the empowerment of others. In this truth lies the bedrock of all virtue."