God's way of forgiving is thorough and hearty,—both to forgive and to forget; and if thine be not so, thou hast no portion of His.—Leighton.
Fortitude.—The greatest man is he who chooses the right with invincible resolution; who resists the sorest temptations from within and without; who bears the heaviest burdens cheerfully; who is the calmest in storms, and whose reliance on truth, on virtue, on God, is the most unfaltering.—Channing.
Fortitude implies a firmness and strength of mind, that enables us to do and suffer as we ought. It rises upon an opposition, and, like a river, swells the higher for having its course stopped.—Jeremy Collier.
True fortitude I take to be the quiet possession of a man's self, and an undisturbed doing his duty, whatever evil besets or danger lies in his way.—Locke.
Fortune.—It is a madness to make fortune the mistress of events, because in herself she is nothing, but is ruled by prudence.—Dryden.
The prudent man really frames his own fortunes for himself.—Plautus.
Let fortune do her worst, whatever she makes us lose, so long as she never makes us lose our honesty and our independence.—Pope.
Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them.—Shakespeare.
Every man is the architect of his own fortune.—Sallust.
The bad fortune of the good turns their faces up to heaven; and the good fortune of the bad bows their heads down to the earth.—Saadi.