Whatever enlarges hope will also exalt courage.
Disease generally begins that equality which death completes.
Presumption will be easily corrected; but timidity is a disease of the mind more obstinate and fatal.
You cannot, by all the lecturing in the world, enable a man to make a shoe.
Every man thinks meanly of himself for not having been a soldier, or not having been at sea.
Deign on the passing world to turn thine eyes, And pause awhile from letters, to be wise.