Add each day something to fortify you against poverty and death.

What is the proper limit for wealth? It is, first, to have what is necessary; and, second, to have what is enough.

If you wish to fear nothing, consider that everything is to be feared.

It is the sign of a great mind to dislike greatness, and prefer things in measure to things in excess.

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

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.

A quarrel is quickly settled when deserted by one party; there is no battle unless there be two.