If confidence is a plant of slow growth, credit is one which matures much more slowly.
What we anticipate seldom occurs; what we least expect generally happens.
A canter is the cure for all evil.
The care of the public health is the first duty of the statesman.
That youthful fervor, which is sometimes called enthusiasm, but which is a heat of imagination subsequently discovered to be inconsistent with the experience of actual life.
Friendship is the gift of the gods, and the most precious boon to man.