Ignorance is the cause of fear.

It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that things are difficult

Many shed tears merely for show, and have dry eyes when no one's around to observe them.

It is within the power of every man to live his life nobly, but of no man to live forever. Yet so many of us hope that life will go on forever, and so few aspire to live nobly.

The great pilot can sail even when his canvass is rent.

Whenever the speech is corrupted so is the mind.

The mind does not easily unlearn what it has been long in learning.