“Respond to anger with virtue. Deal with difficulties while they are still easy. Handle the great while it is still small.”

“Humor can get in under the door while seriousness is still fumbling at the handle.”

“Do the difficult things while they are easy and do the great things while they are small. A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.”

“It is not in the still calm of life, or the repose of a pacific station, that great characters are formed...the habits of a vigorous mind are formed contending with difficulties. All history will convince you of this, and that wisdom and penetration are the fruit of experience, not the lessons of retirement and leisure. Great necessities call out great virtues.”

“.... "death turns all men into great lovers. Would that they were equally ardent while the lady was still alive!”

“Death turns all men into great lovers. Would that they were equally ardent while the body was still alive!”