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

Hope is the best part of our riches. What sufficeth it that we have the wealth of the Indies in our pockets, if we have not the hope of heaven in our souls?

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.

Hope is the best part of our riches.

In ambition, as in love, the successful can afford to be indulgent toward their rivals. The prize our own, it is graceful to recognize the merit that vainly aspired to it.

There are some weaknesses that are peculiar and distinctive to generous characters, as freckles are to a fair skin.

Most books fail, not so much from a want of ability in their authors, as from an absence in their productions of a thorough development of their ability.