Philosophy's power to blunt all the blows of circumstance is beyond belief.

Life is never incomplete if it is an honorable one. At whatever point you leave life, if you leave it in the right way, it is whole.

Such is the blindness, nay the insanity of mankind, that some men are driven to death by the fear of it.

One must steer, not talk.

Nothing is more disgraceful than that an old man should have nothing to show to prove that he has lived long, except his years.

Cling tooth and nail to the following rule: Not to give in to adversity, never to trust prosperity, and always to take full note of fortune's habit of behaving just as she pleases, treating her as if she were actually going to do everything it is in her power to do. Whatever you have been expecting for some time comes as less of a shock.

The greater part of progress is the desire to progress.