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This has become more difficult in a world where change and growth seem to tower beyond the control and even the judgment of men.

Do not confound yourself by considering the whole of life, and by dwelling upon the multitude and greatness of the pains and troubles to which you may probably be exposed.

For them all is suspicion and anxiety; for them there is no possibility of friendship.

As death, therefore, is hanging over our head every hour, how can a man ever be unshaken in soul if he fears it?

All the lessons of history and experience must be lost upon us if we are content to trust alone to the peculiar advantages we happen to possess.

To the hopes of the hostile, the fears of the timid, and the doubts of the anxious actual experience has given the conclusive reply.

If we stay in process, within ourselves, in the joy of the doing, we will never choke at the finish line.

Fear is more importunate and insupportable than death itself

Whoever expects punishment already suffers it, and whoever has deserved it expects it.

Here we see how hurtful it is for a prince or commonwealth to keep the minds of their subjects in constant alarm and suspense by continually renewed punishments and violence.

Therefore, if he who rules a principality cannot recognize evils until they are upon him, he is not truly wise; and this insight is given to few.

Great cases, like hard cases, make bad law. For great cases are called great, not by reason of their real importance in shaping the law of the future, but because of some accident of immediate overwhelming interest which appeals to the feelings and distorts the judgment.

Uncertainty gives fear a chance to get in its deadly work on the imagination and make cowards of us.

the foolish overlook and neglect present blessings, through their thoughts being ever intent on the future; but the wise make the past clearly present to them through memory

the immoderate desire for each, implanting a most immoderate fear of losing them, makes the enjoyment of them weak and wavering, like a flame under the influence of a wind

Fear is an instructor of great sagacity and the herald of all revolutions.

One protects himself by solitude, and one by courtesy, and one by an acid, worldly manner,--each concealing how he can the thinness of his skin and his incapacity for strict association.

To be beautiful and to be calm, without mental fear, is the ideal of nature. If I cannot achieve it, at least I can think it.

These rough notes and our dead bodies must tell the tale, but surely, surely, a great rich country like ours will see that those who are dependent on us are properly provided for.

Futurity is the proper abode of hope and fear, with all their train and progeny of subordinate apprehensions and desires.

The disturbers of our happiness, in this world, are our desires, our griefs, and our fears; and to all these, the consideration of mortality is a certain and adequate remedy.

Evil is uncertain in the same degree as good, and for the reason that we ought not to hope too securely, we ought not to fear with too much dejection.

The good fighters of old first put themselves beyond the possibility of defeat, and then waited for an opportunity of defeating the enemy

If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles

What doth care about future events bring thee, save sorrow upon sorrow?