... the evil that comes out of your lips, into your own bosom will fall.

what is unreasonable is irrefutable.

When a man has calamity upon calamity the world generally concludes that he must be a very wicked man to deserve them. Perhaps the world is right; but it is also just possible that the world ... may be wrong.

It is always the simple that produces the marvelous.

In all troublous events we may find comfort, though it be only in the negative admission that things might have been worse.

No man was ever ruined from without; the final ruin comes from within, when you turn hopeless and lose courage!

The great difference between voyages rests not with the ships, but with the people you meet on them.