The best way to do good to ourselves is to do it to others; the right way to gather is to scatter.

Our fears are always more numerous than our dangers.

Anger, if not restrained, is frequently more hurtful to us than the injury that provokes it.

No tree becomes rooted and sturdy unless many a wind assails it. For by its very tossing it tightens its grip and plants its roots more securely; the fragile trees are those that have grown in a sunny valley.

If you sit in judgment, investigate, if you sit in supreme power, sit in command.

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.

We ought to take outdoor walks, to refresh and raise our spirits by deep breathing in the open air.