Know, Nature's children all divide her care, The fur that warms a monarch warmed a bear.

Do you find yourself making excuses when you do not perform? Shed the excuses and face reality. Excuses are the loser's way out. They will mar your credibility and stunt your personal growth.

The same ambition can destroy or save, and make a patriot as it makes a knave.

Passions are the gales of life.

I find myself hoping a total end of all the unhappy divisions of mankind by party-spirit, which at best is but the madness of many for the gain of a few.

Ambition first sprung from your blest abodes: the glorious fault of angels and of gods.

To pardon those absurdities in ourselves which we cannot suffer in others is neither better nor worse than to be more willing to be fools ourselves than to have others so.