Let us be brave in the face of adversity.

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 evil propensity of the human heart is so powerful that it may not be subdued by discipline.

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

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

Courage leads starward, fear toward death.

It is not manly to turn one's back on fortune.