Our minds, like our bodies, are in continual flux; something is hourly lost, and something acquired. . . . Do not suffer life to stagnate; it will grow muddy for want of motion: commit yourself again to the current of the world.
Courage charms us, because it indicates that a man loves an idea better than all things in the world, that he is thinking neither of his bed, nor his dinner, nor his money, but will venture all to put in act the invisible thought of his mind.