"For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness."

"The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well."

"Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string."

"The wise man in the storm prays to God, not for safety from danger, but for deliverance from fear."

"A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines."