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

“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.”

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

“No past life has been lived to lend us glory, and that which has existed before us is not ours.”

“As long as you live, keep learning how to live.”

“We are indeed apt to ascribe certain faults to the place or to the time; but those faults will follow us, no matter how we change our place.”