As long as the Fates permit, live cheerfully.
He is the best sailor who can steer within fewest points of the wind, and exact a motive power out of the greatest obstacles.
But woe awaits a country when She sees the tears of bearded men.
Ridicule often checks what is absurd, and fully as often smothers that which is noble.
Adversity is, to me at least, a tonic and a bracer.
Those who follow the banners oreason are like the well-disciplined battalions which, wearing a more sober uniform and making a less dazzling show than the light troops commanded by imagination, enjoy more safety, and even more honor, in the conflicts ohuman life.