We become wiser by adversity; prosperity destroys our appreciation of the right." "True happiness is ... to enjoy the present" "It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are difficult.

A physician is not angry at the intemperance of a mad patient, nor does he take it ill to be railed at by a man in fever. Just so should a wise man treat all mankind, as a physician does his patient, and look upon them only as sick and extravagant.

The rust of the mind is the destruction of genius.

The man who thinks only of his own generation is born for few.

Expecting is the greatest impediment to living. In anticipation of tomorrow, it loses today.

Behold a contest worthy of a god, a brave man matched in conflict with adversity.

Remember, not one penny can we take with us into the unknown land.