There are more things to alarm us than to harm us, and we suffer more often in apprehension than reality.
He who dreads hostility too much is unfit to rule.
The rust of the mind is the destruction of genius.
Precepts or maxims are of great weight; and a few useful ones at hand do more toward a happy life than whole volumes that we know not where to find.
Fire tries gold, misery tries brave men.
A coward calls himself cautious, a miser thrifty.