Shame may restrain what law does not prohibit.

The man who has learned to triumph over sorrow wears his miseries as though they were sacred fillets upon his brow; and nothing is so entirely admirable as a man bravely wretched.

It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that things are difficult

It is the power of the mind to be unconquerable.

A favor is to a grateful man delightful always; to an ungrateful man only once.

Just where death is expecting you is something we cannot know; so, for your part, expect him everywhere.

Choose as a guide one whom you will admire more when you see him act than when you hear him speak.