To give and to lose is nothing; but to lose and to give still is the part of a great mind.

If you will fear nothing, think that all things are to be feared.

Fidelity purchased with money, money can destroy.

Nothing becomes so offensive so quickly as grief. When fresh it finds someone to console it, but when it becomes chronic, it is ridiculed and rightly.

Death either destroys or unhusks us. If it means liberation, better things await us when our burden s gone: if destruction, nothing at all awaits us; blessings and curses are abolished.

It is the power of the mind to be unconquerable.

Speech devoted to truth should be straightforward and plain