“It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare, it is because we do not dare that they are difficult.”

“It's not because things are difficult that we dare not venture. It's because we dare not venture that they are difficult.”

“Soft living imposes on us the penalty of debility; we cease to be able to do the things we've long been grudging about doing.”

“It is not that we have so little time but that we lose so much. ... The life we receive is not short but we make it so; we are not ill provided but use what we have wastefully.”

“If we could be satisfied with anything, we should have been satisfied long ago.”

“We are more often frightened than hurt; and we suffer more from imagination than from reality”

“We should conduct ourselves not as if we ought to live for the body, but as if we could not live without it. Our too great love for it makes us restless with fears, burdens us with cares, and exposes us to insults.”