If a man does not know what port he is steering for, no wind is favorable to him.

There's some end at last for the man who follows a path; mere rambling is interminable.

The courts of kings are full of people, but empty of friends.

We should every night call ourselves to an account: What infirmity have I mastered today? What passions opposed! What temptation resisted? What virtue acquired?

We are more often frightened than hurt; and we suffer more from imagination than from reality.

For the great benefits of our being- our life, health, and reason-we look upon ourselves.

Let us be brave in the face of adversity.