The path of precept is long, that of example short and effectual.
It should be our care not so much to live a long life as a satisfactory one.
It does not matter how many books you have, but how good the books are which you have.
Light is that grief which counsel can allay.
Choose as a guide one whom you will admire more when you see him act than when you hear him speak.
If we let things terrify us, life will not be worth living.