The best effort of a fine person is felt after we have left their presence.

No change of circumstances can repair a defect of character.

Win as if you were used to it, lose as if you enjoyed it for a change.

A great part of courage is the courage of having done the thing before.

Every man has his own courage, and is betrayed because he seeks in himself the courage of other persons.

Death comes to all, but great achievements build a monument which shall endure until the sun grows cold.

Do the thing we fear, and death of fear is certain.

Judge of your natural character by what you do in your dreams.

A man is a god in ruins. When men are innocent, life shall be longer, and shall pass into the immortal, as gently as we awake from dreams.

The years teach much which the days never know.