The reasons which any man offers to you for his own conduct betray his opinion of your character.

A man's action is only a picture book of his creed.

The heroic example of other days is in great part the source of the courage of each generation; and men walk up composedly to the most perilous enterprises, beckoned onward by the shades of the brave that were.

It has been said with some meaning that if men would but rest in silence, they might always hear the music of the spheres.

Most terrors are but spectral illusions. Only have the courage of the man who could walk up to his spectre seated in the chair before him, and sit down upon it; the horrid thing will not partake the chair with you.

Offended vanity is the great separator in social life.

No man has ever praised to persons equally-and pleased them both.