Learning makes a man fit company for himself.
Touch the earth, love the earth, honour the earth, her plains, her valleys, her hills, and her seas; rest your spirit in her solitary places.
Take calculated risks. That is quite different from being rash.
The only kind of dignity which is genuine is that which is not diminished by the indifference of others.
Let not a man guard his dignity, but let his dignity guard him.
It is more tolerable to be refused than deceived.
Life without the courage for death is slavery.
It is easy to be brave from a safe distance.