Don’t put too fine a tip to your wit for fear it should be blunted.

Think not disdainfully of death, but look on it with favor; for even dearth is one of the things that Nature wills.

Don't waste life in doubts and fears; spend yourself on the work before you, well assured that the right performance of this hour's duties will be the best preparation for the hours and ages that will follow it.

No man on earth is truly free. All are slaves of money or necessity. Public opinion or fear of prosecution forces each one, against his conscience, to conform.

If you know the enemy and know yourself you need not fear the results of a hundred battles.

The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself.

The more I traveled the more I realized that fear makes strangers of people who should be friends.

Cowards die many times before their deaths; the valiant never taste of death but once.