Truth can hardly be expected to adapt herself to the crooked policy and wily sinuosities of worldly affairs; for truth, like light, travels only in straight lines.

The greatest genius is never so great as when it is chastised and subdued by the highest reason.

There are two metals, one of which is omnipotent in the cabinet, and the other in the camp--gold and iron. He that knows how to apply them both may indeed attain the highest station.

Deliberate with caution, but act with decision and yield with graciousness, or oppose with firmness.

The intoxication of anger, like that of the grape, shows us to others, but hides us from ourselves.

Men of great and shining qualities do not always succeed in life, but the fault lies more often in themselves than in others.

We often regret we did not do otherwise, when that very otherwise would, in all probability, have done for us.