It is not until we have passed through the furnace that we are made to know how much dross there is in our composition.

True contentment depends not upon what we have; a tub was large enough for Diogenes, but a world was too little for Alexander.

The good opinion of our fellow men is the strongest, though not the purest motive to virtue.

Temperate men drink the most, because they drink the longest.

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

Afflictions sent by providence melt the constancy of the noble minded, but confirm the obduracy of the vile, as the same furnace that liquefies the gold, hardens the clay Charles Caleb Colton.

A public debt is a kind of anchor in the storm; but if the anchor be too heavy for the vessel, she will be sunk by that very weight which was intended for her preservation.