Let me attain no envied wealth, let me not plunder cities, neither be taken in turn, and face life in the power of another.

The man whose authority is recent is always stern.

God's most lordly gift to man is decency of mind.

Wisdom comes alone through suffering.

God loves to help him who strives to help himself.

There are times when fear is good. It must keep its watchful place at the heart's controls. There is advantage in the wisdom won from pain.