He that has never known adversity is but half acquainted with others, or with himself.

Pedantry prides herself on being wrong by rules; while common sense is contented to be right without them.

The present time has one advantage over every other -- it is our own.

Money is the most envied, but the least enjoyed. Health is the most enjoyed, but the least envied.

It is adverse to talent to be consorted and trained up with inferior minds and inferior companions, however high they may rank. The foal of the racer neither finds out his speed nor calls out his powers if pastured out with the common herd, that are destined for the collar and the yoke.

War is a game in which princes seldom win, the people never.

Folly disgusts us less by her ignorance than pedantry by her learning.