Most evil is perverted good.   For instance, extravagance is generosity carried to excess.   Revenge is sometimes a sense of justice which has put no restraint upon itself.

…be temperate in all thy religious notions, in love, in wine, in all things, and of a peaceful heart with thy fellows.

Temperance is not only a virtue in itself;  it is also the guard and girdle… of all the other virtues

The poorest education that teaches self-control is better than the best that neglects it.

No experience is without value;  sorrow and suffering, the battle of adverse circumstances, afford the richest discipline of all.

The glory and the glow of life come by right living. 

Courage is adversity’s lamp. True courage fears nothing but sin.

Heroic souls in old times had no more opportunities than we have;  but they used them.

owe everything in the world to being always a quarter of an hour beforehand.

Let any one adopt the practice of reflecting, every morning, what must necessarily be done during the day, and then begin by doing the most important things first, leaving the others to take their chance of being done or left undone.