We suffer more in imagination than in reality.
The part of life which we really live is short.
Those whom true love has held, it will go on holding.
There is more heroism in self-denial than in deeds of arms.
It is remarkable that Providence has given us all things for our advantage near at hand; but iron, gold, and silver, being both the instruments of blood and slaughter and the price of it, nature has hidden in the bowels of the earth.
Philosophy is the art and law of life, and it teaches us what to do in all cases, and, like good marksmen, to hit the white at any distance.