The Reward Of Patience Is Patience.

In Doing What We Ought We Deserve No Praise, Because It Is Our Duty.

The Human Race Is Inquisitive About Other People's Lives, But Negligent To Correct Their Own.

Beware Of Despairing About Yourself: You Are Commanded To Put Your Trust In God, And Not In Yourself.

Make Me A Captive Lord, Then I Shall Be Truly Free.

Though He Avoided Outright Endorsement Of The View, Fifth-century Church Father Saint Augustine Was Clearly Familiar With The Theory Of The Spherical Earth: "they [those Who Believe That "there Are Men On The Other Side Of The Earth"] Fail To Observe That Even If The World Is Held To Be Global Or Rounded In Shape, Or If Some Process Of Reasoning Should Prove This To Be The Case, It Would Still Not Necessarily Follow That The Land On The Opposite Side Is Not Covered By Masses Of Water."