If you wish success in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother, and hope your guardian genius.—Addison.
Success does not consist in never making blunders, but in never making the same one the second time.—H.W. Shaw.
Suicide.—Bid abhorrence hiss it round the world.—Young.
God has appointed us captains of this our bodily fort, which, without treason to that majesty, are never to be delivered over till they are demanded.—Sir P. Sidney.
To die in order to avoid the pains of poverty, love, or anything that is disagreeable, is not the part of a brave man, but of a coward.—Aristotle.
Our time is fix'd; and all our days are number'd;
How long, how short, we know not: this we know,
Duty requires we calmly wait the summons,
Nor dare to stir till Heaven shall give permission.
Like sentries that must keep their destined stand,
And wait th' appointed hour, till they're relieved,
Those only are the brave who keep their ground,
And keep it to the last.
—Blair.
Suicide is not a remedy.—James A. Garfield.
Beware of desperate steps. The darkest day,
Live till to-morrow, will have pass'd away.
—Cowper.
The coward sneaks to death; the brave live on.—Dr. George Sewell.
Superstition.—I think we cannot too strongly attack superstition, which is the disturber of society; nor too highly respect genuine religion, which is the support of it.—Rousseau.