If you will fear nothing, think that all things are to be feared.
If you really want to escape the things that harass you, what you're needing is not to be in a different place but to be a different person.
True happiness is...to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future.
Nothing deters a good man from doing what is honourable.
Take away ambition and vanity, and where will be your heroes and patriots?
Precepts are the rules by which we ought to square our lives. When they are contracted into sentences, they strike the affections; whereas admonition is only blowing of the coal.