The bravest are surely those who have the clearest vision of what is before them, glory and danger alike, and yet notwithstanding go out to meet it.

It is a general rule of human nature that people despise those who treat them well, and look up to those who make no concessions.

For so remarkably perverse is the nature of man that he despises whoever courts him, and admires whoever will not bend before him.

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.

It is from the greatest dangers that the greatest glory is to be won.

Mankind apparently find it easier to drive away adversity than to retain prosperity.