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

All men are alike in their lower natures; it is in their higher characters that they differ.

Formerly when great fortunes were only made in war, war was a business; but now, when great fortunes are only made by business, business is war.

Panic is a sudden desertion of us, and a going over to the enemy of our imagination.

We trifle when we assign limits to our desires, since nature hath set none.

Many an honest man practices upon himself an amount of deceit sufficient, if practised upon another, and in a little different way, to send him to the state prison.

Books are embalmed minds.