“Every man must be content with that glory which he may have at home.”

As far as possible, join faith to reason.

As far as possible, join faith to reason.

As far as possible, join faith to reason.

I scarcely know the meaning of your question; much less can I answer it.

Good men seek it by the natural means of the virtues; evil men, however, try to achieve the same goal by a variety of concupiscences, and that is surely an unnatural way of seeking the good. Don’t you agree?

So nothing is ever good or bad unless you think it so, and vice versa. All luck is good luck to the man who bears it with equanimity.

Nothing is miserable but what is thought so, and contrariwise, every estate is happy if he that bears it be content.

If there is a God, whence proceed so many evils? If there is no God, whence cometh any good?

If there is anything good about nobility it is that it enforces the necessity of avoiding degeneracy.

In every adversity of fortune, to have been happy is the most unhappy kind of misfortune.

The science of numbers ought to be preferred as an acquisition before all others, because of its necessity and because of the great secrets and other mysteries which there are in the properties of numbers. All sciences partake of it, and it has need of none.

He who has calmly reconciled his life to fate … can look fortune in the face.

No man can ever be secure until he has been forsaken by Fortune.

One’s virtue is all that one truly has, because it is not imperiled by the vicissitudes of fortune.

Nothing is miserable unless you think it so.

Music is part of us, and either ennobles or degrades our behavior.

I think we learn more from those times in our history where we stumbled as a democracy than we learn from the glorious chapters.

Age’ is the acceptance of a term of years. But maturity is the glory of years.

Glorious bouquets and storms of applause are the trimmings which every artist naturally enjoys.

And it seems to me important for a country, for a nation to certainly know about its glorious achievements but also to know where its ideals failed, in order to keep that from happening again.

How glorious the splendor of a human heart that trusts that it is loved!

A little more persistence, a little more effort, and what seemed hopeless failure may turn to glorious success.

When I see some of the people who are glorified in magazines these days – who are so thin it’s bordering on sickness – I just feel exhausted.

Life is just a schoolroom with a glorious opportunity to prepare us for eternity.