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To disappoint a friend is unpleasing; and he that forms expectations like yours, must be disappointed.

The disturbers of our happiness, in this world, are our desires, our griefs, and our fears; and to all these, the consideration of mortality is a certain and adequate remedy.

Friends are often chosen for similitude of manners, and therefore each palliates the other's failings, because they are his own.

Futurity is the proper abode of hope and fear, with all their train and progeny of subordinate apprehensions and desires.

A man must have the courage to be himself, and not the shadow or the echo of another.

A man must so train his habits as to rely upon his own powers and depend upon his own courage in moments of emergency.

Energy of temperament, with a moderate degree of wisdom, will carry a man further than any amount of intellect without it.

Work in moderation is healthy, as well as agreeable to the human constitution.

Self-respect, originating in self-love, instigates the first step of improvement.

A good conscience fears no witnesses, but a guilty conscience is solicitous even of solitude.

Beside, that the ills which he fears he may suffer, he suffers in the very fear of them.

Not to amuse ourselves with either hopes or fears, but to rest satisfied with what we have, which is abundantly sufficient; for he that is so, wants nothing.

The ostentation of grief is many times more than the grief itself.

Where the mind is tinctured with philosophy, there is no place for grief, anxiety, or superfluous vexations.

If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles

almost any man can do a great deal, if he will, by getting the utmost possible service out of the qualities that he actually possesses

What doth care about future events bring thee, save sorrow upon sorrow?

When right, I shall often be thought wrong by those whose positions will not command a view of the whole ground.

It occurred to me at once that Harris had been as much afraid of me as I had been of him.

My sensations as we approached what I supposed might be 'a field of battle' were anything but agreeable.

Do all that you can do in a perfect manner every day, but do it without haste, worry, or fear. Go as fast as you can, but never hurry.

Rest and recreation are also necessary to his physical life.

If I felt that there is to be sole responsibility in the Executive for the America of tomorrow I should shrink from the burden.

But the true competition is the competition of the individual with himself,--his present seeking to excel his past.

If we seek ever to surpass ourselves, we are moving on a uniform line of progress, that gives a harmonious unifying to our growth in all its parts.