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

To live is not a blessing, but to live well.

A man can refrain from wanting what he has not and cheerfully make the best of a bird in the hand.

The greatest loss of time is delay and expectation, which depend upon the future. We let go the present, which we have in our power, and look forward to that which depends upon chance, and so relinquish a certainty for an uncertainty.

Fire tests gold, suffering tests brave men.

There in no one more unfortunate than the man who has never been unfortunate. for it has never been in his power to try himself.

The great blessings of mankind are within us and within our reach; but we shut our eyes, and, like people in the dark, we fall foul upon the very thing we search for, without finding it.