Where is there dignity unless there is honesty?

• honesty

Friendship makes prosperity more shining and lessens adversity by dividing and sharing it.

• friends
• relationships

No power is strong enough to be lasting if it labors under the weight of fear.

• fear

The administration of government, like a guardianship, ought to be directed to the good of those who confer, not of those who receive the trust.

• government

It is the character of a brave and resolute man not to be ruffled by adversity and not to desert his post.

• bravery
• adversity
• persistence

Confidence is that feeling by which the mind embarks in great and honorable courses with a sure hope and trust in itself.

• confidence

Reason should direct and appetite obey.

• discipline
• reason

Do not hold the delusion that your advancement is accomplished by crushing others.

• cooperation

When you wish to instruct, be brief; that men's minds take in quickly what you say, learn its lesson, and retain it faithfully. Every word that is unnecessary only pours over the side of a brimming mind.

• brevity