There is no such thing as chance; and what seem to us merest accident springs from the deepest source of destiny.
Only the soldier is a free man, because he can look death in the face.
No greater grief than to remember days of gladness when sorrow is at hand.
It would be necessary that they should be already sages to love wisdom...
Be noble minded! Our own heart, and not other men's opinions of us, forms our true honor.
If you would attain to your highest, go look upon a flower;what the flower does willessly, that do willingly.