Health is the soul that animates all the enjoyments of life, which fade and are tasteless without it.

Death: There's nothing bad about it at all except the thing that comes before it-the fear of it.

Fortune can take away riches, but not courage.

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.

Those alone are wise who know how to love.

Choose as a guide one whom you will admire more when you see him act than when you hear him speak.

He that will do no good offices after a disappointment must stand still, and do just nothing at all. The plough goes on after a barren year; and while the ashes are yet warm, we raise a new house upon the ruins of a former.