I shall never be ashamed of citing a bad author if the line is good.

Courage leads starward, fear toward death.

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

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

No evil is without its compensation ... it is not the loss itself, but the estimate of the loss, that troubles us.

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.

No man will swim ashore and take his baggage with him.