All good writing leaves something unexpressed.

Honesty is not only "the first step toward greatness," - it is greatness itself.

Marriage, by making us more contented, causes us often to be less enterprising.

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

Courage enlarges, cowardice diminishes resources.

Good men have the fewest fears. He has but one great fear who fears to do wrong; he has a thousand who has overcome it.

Weakness ineffectually seeks to disguise itself,--like a drunken man trying to show how sober he is.