“Be like the promontory against which the waves continually break, but it stands firm and tames the fury of the water around it.”

“No longer talk at all about the kind of man that a good man ought to be, but be one.”

“Time is like a river made up of the events which happen, and a violent stream; for as soon as a thing has been seen, it is carried away, and another comes in its place, and this will be carried away too.”