Life is not anything, but an opportunity for something.

He who serves the public is a poor animal; he worries himself to death and no one thanks him for it.

To tremble before anticipated evils is to bemoan what thou hast never lost.

We must not take the faults of our youth with us into old age, for age brings along its own defects.

How can you come to know yourself? Never by thinking, always by doing. Try to do your duty, and you'll know right away what you amount to.

To measure up to all that is demanded of him, a man must overestimate his capacities

One should not wish anyone disagreeable conditions of life; but for him who is involved in them by chance, they are touchstones of characters and of the most decisive value to man.