It is the fault of youth that it cannot restrain its own impetuosity.

It is the superfluous things for which men sweat, - superfluous things that wear our togas theadbare, that force us to grow old in camp, that dash us upon foreign shores.

Whoever has nothing to hope, let him despair of nothing.

Courage leads to heaven; fear leads to death.

We should every night call ourselves to an account: What infirmity have I mastered today? What passions opposed? What temptation resisted? What virtue acquired? Our vices will abate of themselves if they be brought every day to the shrift.

The pressure of adversity does not affect the mind of the brave man. It is more powerful than external circumstances.

A disease is farther on the road to being cured when it breaks forth from concealment and manifests its power.