You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.
I am more and more convinced that our happiness or unhappiness depends more on the way we meet the events of life than on the nature of those events themselves.
We play the hands of cards life gives us. And the worst hands can make us the best players.
I believe that all government is evil, and that trying to improve it is largely a waste of time.
You can't have a light without a dark to stick it in.
You cannot run away from a weakness; you must sometimes fight it out or perish. And if that be so, why not now, and where you stand?
What more felicity can fall to creature, than to enjoy delight with liberty.