Our fears vanish as the danger approaches.

Set aside a certain number of days, during which you shall be content with the scantiest and cheapest fare, with course and rough dress, saying to yourself the while: " Is this the condition that I feared?"

Greed's worst point is its ingratitude.

It is a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness. As is a tale, so is life: not how long it is, but how good it is, is what matters.

How much better to pursue a straight course and eventually reach that destination where the things that are pleasant are the things that are honorable finally become, for you, the same.

Modesty once extinguished knows not how to return.

I do not distinguish by the eye, but by the mind, which is the proper judge of the man.