Life is a warfare; and he who easily desponds deserts a double duty--he betrays the noblest property of man, which is dauntless resolution; and he rejects the providence of that All-Gracious Being who guides and rules the universe.

To be truly and really independent is to support ourselves by our own exertions.

Magnanimity is above circumstance; and any virtue which depends on that is more of constitution than of principle.

Yet happiness isn't something you chase, it's something you are. It's something you think, it's something you believe.

Virtue is despotic; life, reputation, every earthly good, must be surrendered at her voice. The law may seem hard, but it is the guardian of what it commands; and is the only sure defence of happiness.

The best manner of avenging ourselves is by not resembling him who has injured us.

National antipathy is the basest, because the most illiberal and illiterate of all prejudices.