The conditions of conquest are always easy. We have but to toil awhile, endure awhile, believe always, and never turn back
I shall never be ashamed of citing a bad author if the line is good.
It is the sign of a great mind to dislike greatness, and prefer things in measure to things in excess.
Malice drinks one-half of its own poison.
We can be thankful to a friend for a few acres or a little money; and yet for the freedom and command of the whole earth, and for the great benefits of our being, our life, health, and reason, we look upon ourselves as under no obligation.
Let us be brave in the face of adversity.
It is for the superfluous things of life that men sweat.
The sun also shines on the wicked.
No man will swim ashore and take his baggage with him.
It is not death we fear, but the thought of it.
Know this, that he that is a friend to himself, is a friend to all men.
No evil is without its compensation ... it is not the loss itself, but the estimate of the loss, that troubles us.
You can end love more easily than you can moderate it.
Courage is a scorner of things which inspire fear.
Nothing is our except time.
A happy life is one which is in accordance with its own nature.
There's some end at last for the man who follows a path; mere rambling is interminable.
Courage leads starward, fear toward death.
Unhappy is the man, though he rule the world, who doesn't consider himself supremely blessed.
It is not manly to turn one's back on fortune.
To keep oneself safe does not mean to bury oneself.
For the great benefits of our being- our life, health, and reason-we look upon ourselves.
The great soul surrenders itself to fate.
