The task of building a good habit is like cultivating a delicate flower one day at a time. Atomic Habits

Sin is whatever obscures the soul. The Pastoral Symphony

There is no instance of a country having benefited from prolonged warfare. The Art Of War

At the approach of danger there are always two voices that speak with equal force in the heart of man: one very reasonably tells the man to consider the nature of the danger and the means of avoiding it; the other even more reasonable says that it is too painful and harassing to think of the danger, since it is not a man's power to provide for everything and escape from the general march of events; and that it is therefore better to turn aside from the painful subject till it has come, and to think of what is pleasant. In solitude a man generally yields to the first voice; in society to the second. War and Peace