There is this paradox in pride - it makes some men ridiculous, but prevents others from becoming so.

Life often presents us with a choice of evils, rather than of goods.

The only kind office performed for us by our friends of which we never complain is our funeral; and the only thing which we most want, happens to be the only thing we never purchase--our coffin.

All adverse and depressing influences can be overcome, not by fighting, by by rising above them.

Doubt is the vestibule through which all must pass before they can enter into the temple of wisdom.

He that swells in prosperity will be sure to shrink in adversity.

He that is good will infallibly become better, and he that is bad will as certainly become worse; for vice, virtue, and time are three things that never stand still.