The mountain cannot frighten one who was born on it.

Regarded in isolation, an idea may be quite insignificant, and venturesome in the extreme, but it may acquire importance from an idea which follows it; perhaps, in a certain collocation with other ideas, which may seem equally absurd, it may be capable of furnishing a very serviceable link.

Happy he who learns to bear what he cannot change.

Every man stamps his value on himself... man is made great or small by his own will.

The brave person thinks of himself last of all.

Only those who have the patience to do simple things perfectly will acquire the skill to do difficult things easily.

Chains of iron or of silk-both are chains.