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.

Experience is the extract of suffering.

Simple ignorance has in its time been complimented by the names of most of the vices, and of all the virtues.

The apparent foolishness of others is but too frequently our own ignorance.

They tell us that "Pity is akin to Love;" if so, Pity must be a poor relation.

I do not know any way so sure of making others happy as of being so oneself, to begin with.

In a balanced organization, working towards a common objective, there is success.