The approach of liberty makes even an old man brave.
See how many are better off than you are, but consider how many are worse.
How great would be our peril if our slaves began to number us!
It is a tedious thing to be always beginning life; they live badly who always begin to live.
You have to persevere and fortify your pertinacity until the will to good becomes a disposition to good.
A disease is farther on the road to being cured when it breaks forth from concealment and manifests its power.