There is nothing the busy man is less busied with than living; there is nothing harder to learn.

What others think of us would be of little moment did it not, when known, so deeply tinge what we think of ourselves.

If we let things terrify us, life will not be worth living.

Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body.

He who tenders doubtful safety to those in trouble refuses it.

What madness it is for a man to starve himself to enrich his heir, and so turn a friend into an enemy! For his joy at your death will be proportioned to what you leave him.

Everything hangs on one's thinking.