Fortune may rob us of our wealth, not of our courage.

It is safer to offend certain men than it is to oblige them; for as proof that they owe nothing they seek recourse in hatred.

It is remarkable that Providence has given us all things for our advantage near at hand; but iron, gold, and silver, being both the instruments of blood and slaughter and the price of it, nature has hidden in the bowels of the earth.

Life's neither a good nor an evil: it's a field for good and evil.

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

There are more things to alarm us than to harm us, and we suffer more often in apprehension than reality.

Gold is tried by fire, brave men by adversity.