We consume the carcasses of creatures of like appetites, passions and organs with our own, and fill the slaughterhouses daily with screams of pain and fear.

They say cowardice is infectious; but then argument is, on the other hand, a great emboldener.

To the old our mouths are always partly closed; we must swallow our obvious retorts and listen. They sit above our heads, on life's raised dais, and appeal at once to our respect and pity.

Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others.

In each of us, two natures are at war – the good and the evil. All our lives the fight goes on between them, and one of them must conquer. But in our own hands lies the power to choose – what we want most to be we are.

Our business in life is not to succeed, but to continue to fail in good spirits.

Make up your mind to be happy. Learn to find pleasure in simple things.