"Nothing can happen to any man that nature has not fitted him to endure."
"Try to move men by persuasion; yet act against their will if the principles of justice so direct. But if someone uses force to obstruct you, then take a different line;resign yourself without a pang, and turn the obstacle into an opportunity for the exercise of some other virtue. Your attempt was always subject to reservations, remember; you were not aiming at the impossible. At what then? Simply at making the attempt itself."
"Love nothing but that which comes to you woven in the pattern of your destiny."
"The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing..."
"Never go beyond the sense of your original impressions....Supply no additions of your own, and you are safe..."
"There is a type of person who, if he renders you a service, has no hesitation in claiming the credit for it. Another, though not prepared to go so far as that, will nevertherless secretly regard you as in his debt and be fully conscious of what he has done. But there is also the man who, one might almost say, has no consciousness at all of what he has done, like the vine which produces a cluster of grapes and then, having yielded its rightful fruit, looks for no more thanks than a horse that has run his race, a hound that has tracked his quarry, or a bee that has hived her honey. Like them, the man who has done one good action, as the vine passes on to the bearing of another summer's grapes."
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