When you fear something, learn as much about it as you can. Knowledge conquers fear.

The chief danger in life is that you may take too many precautions.

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

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.

He who fears he shall suffer, already suffers what he fears.

The better you are at communicating negotiating, and handling your fear of rejection, the easier life is.

Great is he, who conquers the frightful. Sublime is he, who, while succumbing to it, fears it not.

The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge.

If a man empties his purse into his head, no man can take it away from him. An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.

He who has so little knowledge of human natures as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition will waste his life in fruitless efforts.

There is nothing so absurd or ridiculous that has not at some time been said by some philosopher.

As the traveler who has once been from home is wiser than he who has never left his own doorstep, so a knowledge of one other culture should sharpen our ability to scrutinize more steadily, to appreciate more lovingly, our own.

The most crucial use of knowledge and education is to understand the importance of developing a good heart.

Knowledge rests not upon truth alone, but upon error also.

Nothing leads so straight to futility as literary ambitions without systematic knowledge.