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

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

The conditions of conquest are always easy. We have but to toil awhile, endure awhile, believe always, and never turn back

We can be thankful to a friend for a few acres or a little money; and yet for the freedom and command of the whole earth, and for the great benefits of our being, our life, health, and reason, we look upon ourselves as under no obligation.

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.

Let us train our minds to desire what the situation demands.

There is no person so severely punished, as those who subject themselves to the whip of their own remorse.