The doors of wisdom are never shut.

Where there is charity and wisdom, there is neither fear nor ignorance. Where there is patience and humility, there is neither anger nor vexation. Where there is poverty and joy, there is neither greed nor avarice. Where there is peace and meditation, there is neither anxiety nor doubt.

Learning is the only thing the mind never exhausts, never fears, and never regrets.

If you want to conquer fear, don't sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy.

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.

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

If you listen to your fears, you will die never knowing what a great person you might have been.

I'm an old man and have known a great many troubles, but most of them have never happened.

I have learned over the years that when one's mind is made up, this diminishes fear; knowing what must be done does away with fear.

The wise man does at once what the fool does finally.

Perfect wisdom has four parts; Wisdom, the principle of doing things right. Justice, the principle of doing things equally in public and private. Fortitude, the principle of not fleeing danger, but meeting it. Temperance, the principle of subduing desires and living moderately.

We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that is in it—and stop there; lest we be like the cat that sits down on a hot stove lid. She will never sit down on a hot stove lid again—and that is well; but also she will never sit down on a cold one any more.

The opinion of 10,000 men is of no value if none of them know anything about the subject.