What you think about yourself is much more important than what others think of you.

It is not death we fear, but the thought of it.

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

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

The road to learning by precept is long, but by example short and effective.

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

Malice drinks one-half of its own poison.