If thou art a man, admire those who attempt great things, even though they fail.

Happy he whoe'er, content with the common lot, with safe breeze hugs the shore, and, fearing to trust his skiff to the wider sea, with unambitious oar keeps close to the land.

Let tears flow of their own accord; their flowing is not inconsistent with inward peace and harmony.

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.

Nothing is so bitter that a calm mind cannot find comfort in it.

What a vile and abject thing is man if he do not raise himself above humanity.

Haste trips up its own heels, fetters and stops itself.