Since human wisdom cannot secure us from accidents, it is the greatest effort of reason to bear them well.

It seems to be a law of nature, inflexible and inexorable, that those who will not risk cannot win.

I have not yet begun to fight!

If fear is cultivated it will become stronger, if faith is cultivated it will achieve mastery.

If fear is cultivated it will become stronger, if faith is cultivated it will achieve mastery.

I have sacrificed not only my favorite scheme of life, but the softer affections of the heart, and my prospects of domestic happiness, and I am ready to sacrifice my life also, with cheerfulness, if that forfeiture could restore peace and good will among mankind.