He can compress the most words into the smallest ideas of any man I ever met. Moral principle is a looser bond than pecuniary interest. My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure. Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power. No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent.
People are just about as happy as they make up their minds to be.
The probability that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a caused we believe to be just. Quarrel not at all. No man resolved to make the most of himself can spare time for personal contention. Still less can he afford to take all the consequences, including the vitiation of his temper and loss of self-control. Better give your path to a dog than be bitten by him in contesting for the right.