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

If you want to be loved, love.

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

The great soul surrenders itself to fate.

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

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