My books are friends that never fail me.
The first duty of man is to conquer fear; he must get rid of it, he cannot act till then.
A vein of poetry exists in the hearts of all men.
Let one who wants to move and convince others, first be convinced and moved themselves. If a person speaks with genuine earnestness the thoughts, the emotion and the actual condition of their own heart, others will listen because we all are knit together by the tie of sympathy.
The first duty of man is that of subduing fear.
Clean undeniable right, clear undeniable might: either of these once ascertained puts an end to battle. All battle is a confused experiment to ascertain one and both of these.