If we let things terrify us, life will not be worth living.
A lesson that is never learned can never be too often taught.
Remember that pain has this most excellent quality. If prolonged it cannot be severe, and if severe it cannot be prolonged.
Whatever is to make us better and happy God has placed either openly before us or close to us.
Nothing is so bitter that a calm mind cannot find comfort in it.
To be feared is to fear. No one has been able to strike terror into others and at the same time enjoy peace of mind.
Our care should not be to have lived long as to have lived enough.
Tranqility is a certain quality of mind, which no condition or fortune can either exalt or depress.
Fate rules the affairs of men, with no recognizable order.
The fates lead the willing, and drag the unwilling.
If you would judge, understand.
Indolence is stagnation; employment is life.
They who have light in themselves will not revolve as satellites.
Life is the fire that burns and the sun that gives light. Life is the wind and the rain and the thunder in the sky. Life is matter and is earth, what is and what is not, and what beyond is in Eternity.
In war there is no prize for runner-up.
Retirement without the love of letters is a living burial.
A person’s fears are lighter when the danger is at hand.
The man who does something under orders is not unhappy; he is unhappy who does something against his will.
No tree becomes rooted and sturdy unless many a wind assails it. For by its very tossing it tightens its grip and plants its roots more securely; the fragile trees are those that have grown in a sunny valley.
The comfort of having a friend may be taken away, but not that of having had one.