I require myself not to be equal to the best, but to be better then the bad.

Tranqility is a certain quality of mind, which no condition or fortune can either exalt or depress.

A lesson that is never learned can never be too often taught.

You want to live-but do you know how to live? You are scared of dying-and, tell me, is the kind of life you lead really any different from being dead?

Let us not seek our disease out of ourselves; 'tis in us, and planted in our bowels; and the mere fact that we do not perceive ourselves to be sick, renders us more hard to be cured.

Let us bear with magnanimity whatever it is needful for us to bear.

Brother, the Great Spirit has made us all. . . . .