There are some kinds of men who cannot pass their time alone; they are the flails of occupied people.(Bonald, M.} There are few wild beasts more to be dreaded than a communicative man having nothing to communicate.

It is of very little use in trying to be dignified, if dignity is no part of your character.

Doubt whom you will, but never yourself.

Neither love nor ambition, as it has often been shown, can brook a division of its empire in the heart.

A failure establishes only this, that our determination to succeed was not strong enough.

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

As many suffer from too much as too little.