The road to learning by precept is long, but by example short and effective.
A quarrel is quickly settled when deserted by one party; there is no battle unless there be two.
For the great benefits of our being- our life, health, and reason-we look upon ourselves.
Failure changes for the better, success for the worse.
Courage leads starward, fear toward death.
It is not death we fear, but the thought of it.