Alas! it is not the child but the boy that generally survives in the man.

Selfishness, when it is punished by the world, is mostly punished because it is connected with egotism.

The sense of danger is never, perhaps, so fully apprehended as when the danger has been overcome.

There is hardly a more common error than that of taking the man who has one talent, for a genius.

Always win fools first. They talk much, and what they have once uttered they will stick to; whereas there is always time, up to the last moment, to bring before a wise man arguments that may entirely change his opinion.

Wisdom is seldom gained without suffering.

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.