A sword by itself does not slay; it is merely the weapon used by the slayer.

We become wiser by adversity; prosperity destroys our appreciation of the right." "True happiness is ... to enjoy the present" "It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are difficult.

I am telling you to be a slow-speaking person.

A crowd of fellow-sufferers is a miserable kind of comfort.

Men can be divided into 2 groups: one that goes ahead and achieves something, and one that comes after and criticizes.

The mind unlearns with difficulty what it has long learned.

True happiness is...to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future.