Our minds are rendered buoyant by exercise.

More is lost by indecision than wrong decision. Indecision is the thief of opportunity. It will steal you blind.

In so far as the mind is stronger than the body, so are the ills contracted by the mind more severe than those contracted by the body.

All I can do is to urge on you to regard friendship as the greatest thing in the world; for there is nothing which so fits in with our nature, or is so exactly what we want in prosperity or adversity.

It is not enough merely possess virtue, as if it were an art; it should be practiced.

No grief is so acute but time ameliorates it.

Though liberty is established by law, we must be vigilant, for liberty to enslave us is always present under that very liberty. Our Constitution speaks of the "general welfare of the people." Under that phrase all sorts of excesses can be employed by lusting tyrants to make us bondsmen.