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From that event to the close of the war, I never experienced trepidation upon confronting an enemy, though I always felt more or less anxiety.

Do all that you can do in a perfect manner every day, but do it without haste, worry, or fear. Go as fast as you can, but never hurry.

Perhaps the best cure for the fear of death is to reflect that life has a beginning as well as an end.

It is in periods like this that it behooves the people to be most watchful of those to whom they have intrusted power.

This danger is greatly heightened, as it has been always observable that men are less jealous of encroachments of one department upon another than upon their own reserved rights.

The American over-tension and jerkiness and breathlessness and intensity and agony of expression are primarily social, and only secondarily physiological, phenomena.

Unclamp, in a word, your intellectual and practical machinery, and let it run free; and the service it will do you will be twice as good.

When once a decision is reached and execution is the order of the day, dismiss absolutely all responsibility and care about the outcome.

the great thing in all education is to make our nervous system our ally instead of our enemy

Let no youth have any anxiety about the upshot of his education, whatever the line of it may be.

Otherwise, free speech which is the strength of the Nation will be the cause of its destruction.

Imperturbability means coolness and presence of mind under all circumstances, calmness amid storm, clearness of judgment in moments of grave peril, immobility, impassiveness, or, to use an old and expressive word, phlegm.

Take no thought for the morrow. Live neither in the past nor in the future, but let each day's work absorb your entire energies, and satisfy your widest ambition.

Let the day's work suffice; live for it, regardless of what the future has in store, believing that to-morrow should take thought for the things of itself.

The pure men of old slept without dreams, and waked without anxiety.