Courage is not merely a virtue; it is the virtue. Without it, there are no other virtues.

Moral courage is higher and a rarer virtue than physical courage.

Holland is a country, where the earth is better than the air, and profit more in request than honor; where there is more sense than wit; more good nature than good humor; and more wealth than pleasure; where a man would choose rather to travel than t

There cannot live an unhappier creature than an ill-natured old man, who is neither capable of receiving pleasures, nor sensible of conferring them on others

The best rules to form a young man are, to talk little, to hear much, to reflect alone upon what has passed in company, to distrust one's opinions, and value others that deserve it

Health is the soul that animates all the enjoyments of life, which fade and are tasteless without it.