A man of courage is also full of faith. Ability without honor is useless. Can there be greater foolishness than the respect you pay to people collectively when you despise them individually? Confidence is that feeling by which the mind embarks in great and honorable courses with a sure hope and trust in itself. Nothing is more noble, nothing more venerable than fidelity. Faithfulness and truth are the most sacred excellences and endowments of the human mind. Great is the power of habit. It teaches us to bear fatigue and to despise wounds and pain. No one is so old as to think he cannot live one more year. If we are forced, at every hour, to watch or listen to horrible events, this constant stream of ghastly impressions will deprive even the most delicate among us of all respect for humanity. If you have no confidence in self, you are twice defeated in the race of life. With confidence, you have won even before you have started. In a disordered mind, as in a disordered body, soundness of health is impossible. | 
