"The true man of honor is he who is ready to stand by a good cause even when it is unpopular."

"In a little while you will be nobody and nowhere."

"Reject your sense of injury, and the injury itself disappears."

"Consider the life of a man of forty, and the life of a man of ten thousand years; what difference is there? For both the past is gone, and the future is uncertain."

"Do not waste the remainder of thy life in thoughts about others, when thou dost not refer thy thoughts to some object of common utility. For thou wilt lose thy opportunity for doing anything else."