Refrain from following the example of those whose craving is for attention, not their own improvement.

Expecting is the greatest impediment to living. In anticipation of tomorrow, it loses today.

That is never too often repeated, which is never sufficiently learned.

War I abhor, and yet how sweet The sound along the marching street Of drum and fife, and I forget Wet eyes of widows, and forget Broken old mothers, and the whole Dark butchery without a soul.

The man who has learned to triumph over sorrow wears his miseries as though they were sacred fillets upon his brow; and nothing is so entirely admirable as a man bravely wretched.

Call it Nature, Fate, Fortune; all these are names of the one and selfsame God.

Go on and increase in valor, O boy! this is the path to immortality.