Choose as a guide one whom you will admire more when you see him act than when you hear him speak.
Away with the world's opinion of you-it's always unsettled and divided.
Death is the wish of some, the relief of many, and the end of all.
Great men rejoice in adversity, just as brave soldiers triumph in war.
Many men would have arrived at wisdom had they not believed themselves to have arrived there already.
It is medicine, not scenery, for which a sick man must go searching.