...knowing the secret of happiness to be freedom, and the secret of freedom a brave heart, not idly to stand aside from the enemy's onset.

Happiness depends on being free, and freedom depends on being courageous.

Self-control is the chief element in self-respect, and respect of self, in turn, is the chief element in courage.

They whose minds are least sensitive to calamity, and whose hands are most quick to meet it, are the greatest men and the greatest communities.

So little trouble do men take in the search after truth; so readily do they accept whatever comes first to hand.

You can now, if you choose, employ your present success to advantage, so as to keep what you have got and gain honour and reputation besides, and you can avoid the mistake of those who meet with an extraordinary piece of good fortune, and are led on by hope to grasp continually at something further, through having already succeeded without expecting it.

Those who have experienced good and bad luck many times have every reason to be skeptical of successes