Spartans, stoics, heroes, saints and gods use short and positive speech.

He who would be a man must therefore be a non-conformist.

We are very near to greatness: one step and we are safe; can we not take the leap?

Win as if you were used to it, lose as if you enjoyed it for a change.

Every book is a quotation; and every house is a quotation out of all forests, and mines, and stone quarries; and every man is a quotation from all his ancestors.

Society is infected with rude, cynical, restless, and frivolous persons who prey upon the rest, and whom no public opinion concentrated into good manners, forms accepted by the sense of all, can reach; the contradictors and railers at public and private tables, who are like terriers, who conceive it the duty of a dog of honor to growl at any passer-by, and do the honors of the house by barking him out of sight.

In every situation do the thing you fear. If you do the thing you fear, the death of fear is certain.