It is seldom that we find out how great are our resources until we are thrown upon them.

Qualities not regulated run into their opposites. Economy before competence is meanness after it. Therefore economy is for the poor; the rich may dispense with it.

The method of the enterprising is to plan with audacity and execute with vigor.

It is some compensation for great evils, that they enforce great lessons.

The best evidence of merit is a cordial recognition of it whenever and wherever it may be found.

If one is not virtuous he becomes vicious.

There is no sense of weariness like that which closes in a day of eager and unintermittent pursuit of pleasure. The apple is eaten, but "the core sticks in the throat." Expectation has then given way to ennui, appetite to satiety.