Neither should a ship rely on one small anchor, nor should life rest on a single hope.

To make anything a habit, do it; to not make it a habit, do not do it; to unmake a habit, do something else in place of it.

Be not swept off your feet by the vividness of the impression, but say, "Impression, wait for me a little. Let me see what you are and what you represent. Let me try you."

It doesn't take much to lose everything, just a little departure from reason

If virtue promises happiness, prosperity and peace, then progress in virtue is progress in each of these for to whatever point the perfection of anything brings us, progress is always an approach toward it.

I am not eternity, but a man; a part of the whole, as an hour is of the day.

You can be invincible, if you enter into no contest in which it is not in your power to conquer.