Economy is for the poor; the rich may dispense with it.

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

Loss of sincerity is loss of vital power.

Mortal beauty stings while it delights.

Courage enlarges, cowardice diminishes resources. In desperate straits the fears of the timid aggravate the dangers that imperil the brave.

Nature has provided for the exigency of privation, by putting the measure of our necessities far below the measure of our wants. Our necessities are to our wants as Falstaff's pennyworth of bread to his any quantity of sack.

A sound discretion is not so much indicated by never making a mistake as by never repeating it.