All must respect those who respect themselves.

Extreme views are never just; something always turns up which disturbs the calculations formed upon their data.

If confidence is a plant of slow growth, credit is one which matures much more slowly.

To do nothing and get something, formed a boy's ideal of a manly career.

I am prepared for the worst, but hope for the best.

Twilight makes us pensive; Aurora is the goddess of activity; despair curses at midnight; hope blesses at noon.

There are few positions less inspiriting than those of a discomfited party.