There are more things to alarm us than to harm us, and we suffer more often in apprehension than reality.
From Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body.
We can be thankful to a friend for a few acres, or a little money; and yet for the freedom and command of the whole earth, and for the great benefits of our being, our life, health, and reason, we look upon ourselves as under no obligation.
Those who boast of their descent, brag on what they owe to others.
That is never too often repeated, which is never sufficiently learned.
A well governed appetite is the greater part of liberty.
I never come back home with the same moral character I went out with; something or other becomes unsettled where I had achieved internal peace; some one or other of the things I had put to flight reappears on the scene.
The first step in a person's salvation is knowledge of their sin.
Slavery takes hold of few, but many take hold of slavery.
No evil propensity of the human heart is so powerful that it may not be subdued by discipline.
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