We are sure to be losers when we quarrel with ourselves; it is civil war.

It is easier to pretend to be what you are not than to hide what you really are; but he that can accomplish both has little to learn in hypocrisy.

If you want enemies, excel others; if you want friends, let others excel you.

If a horse has four legs, and I'm riding it, I think I can win.

Law and equity are two things which God has joined, but which man has put asunder.

He that will often put eternity and the world before him, and who will dare to look steadfastly at both of them, will find that the more often he contemplates them, the former will grow greater, and the latter less.

The brightest thunder-bolt is elicited from the darkest storm.