“As is a tale, so is life: not how long it is, but how good it is, that matters.”

Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body.

It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor.

Begin at once to live, and count each separate day as a separate life.

Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.

Associate with people who are likely to improve you.

We learn not in school, but in life.

True happiness is to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future.

We suffer more often in imagination than in reality.