All is race - there is no other truth.

I have brought myself, by long meditation, to the conviction that a human being with a settled purpose must accomplish it, and that nothing can resist a will which will stake even existence upon its fulfillment.

More pernicious nonsense was never devised by man than treaties of commerce.

A sophistical rhetorician, inebriated with the exuberance of his own verbosity, and gifted with an egotistical imagination that can at all times command an interminable and inconsistent series of arguments to malign an opponent and to glorify himself.

Let the fear of a danger be a spur to prevent it; he that fears not, gives advantage to the danger.

Nothing in life is more remarkable than the unnecessary anxiety which we endure, and generally create ourselves.

I do not believe such a quality as chance exists. Every incident that happens must be a link in a chain.