Marcus Aurelius: “If thou art able, correct by teaching those who do wrong; but if thou canst not, remember that indulgence is given to…”

What a power man has to do nothing except what God will approve, and to accept all that God may give him.

There was in him nothing harsh, nor implacable, nor violent, nor, as one may say, anything carried to the sweating point; but he examined all things severally, as if he had abundance of time, and without confusion, in an orderly way…

Begin the morning by saying to thyself, I shall meet with the busybody, the ungrateful, arrogant, deceitful, envious, unsocial.

In the morning when thou risest unwillingly, let this thought be present,--I am rising to the work of a human being.