Teach self-denial and make its practice pleasure, and you can create for the world a destiny more sublime that ever issued from the brain of the wildest dreamer.

There never will exist anything permanently noble and excellent in the character which is a stranger to resolute self-denial.

Who o'er the herd would wish to reign, Fantastic, fickle, fierce, and vain! Vain as the leaf upon the stream, And fickle as a changeful dream; Fantastic as a woman's mood, And fierce as Frenzy's fever'd blood. Thou many-headed monster thing, Oh who would wish to be thy king!

Real valor consists not in being insensible to danger; but in being prompt to confront and disarm it.

The chain of friendship, however bright, does not stand the attrition of constant close contact.

The willow which bends to the tempest often escapes better than the oak which resists it.

The man who is deserving the name is the one whose thoughts and exertions are for others rather than for himself.