True happiness is to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future, not to amuse ourselves with either hopes or fears but to rest satisfied with what we have, which is sufficient, for he that is so wants nothing.
Courage is a scorner of things which inspire fear.
Failure changes for the better, success for the worse.
It is not death we fear, but the thought of it.
All art is an imitation of nature.
Let us train our minds to desire what the situation demands.