Of all the liars in the world, sometimes the worst are your own fears.

Obstacles are like wild animals. They are cowards but they will bluff you if they can. If they see you are afraid of them, they are liable to spring upon you; but if you look them squarely in the eye, they will sink out of sight.

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

Our repentance is not so much regret for the ill we have done as fear of the ill that may happen to us in consequence.

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

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.

To make a contented slave it is necessary to make a thoughtless one. It is necessary to darken the moral and mental vision and, as far as possible, to annihilate the power of reason.

The truth has no defense against a fool determined to believe a lie.

Truth is so obscure in these times, and falsehood so established that, unless we love the truth, we cannot know it.

The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd; indeed in view of the silliness of the majority of mankind, a widespread belief is more likely to be foolish than sensible.

The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is.

Without courage, we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency. We can't be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest.

But all my life through, the very insistence on truth has taught me to appreciate the beauty of compromise.

I am a true laborer: I earn that I eat, get that I wear, owe no man hate, envy no man’s happiness, glad of other men’s good, content with my harm.

Amid the seeming confusion of our mysterious world, individuals are so nicely adjusted to a system, and systems to one another and to a whole, that, by stepping aside for a moment, a man exposes himself to a fearful risk of losing his place forever.

None of us knows what might happen even the next minute, yet still we go forward. Because we trust. Because we have Faith.

Re-examine all you have been told at school or church or in any book, dismiss whatever insults your own soul; and your very flesh shall be a great poem, and have the richest fluency, not only in its words, but in the silent lines of its lips and face, and between the lashes of your eyes, and in every motion and joint of your body.

All men make mistakes, but a good man yields when he knows he knows his course is wrong and repairs the evil. The only crime is pride.