And this our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything.

This is the true joy in life -- being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one...

Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved.

The greater the difficulty, the more the glory in surmounting it.

Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents, which in prosperous circumstances would have lain dormant.

Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice.

How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it.

To do two things at once is to do neither.

Philosophy is a battle against the bewitchment of our intelligence by means of language.

It is better to die on your feet than to live on your knees!