We make way for the man who boldly pushes past us.

Whether one talks well depends very much upon whom he has to talk to.

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.

A mother is the best friend God ever gave.

It is our relation to circumstances that determine their influence over us. The same wind that blows one ship into port may blow another off shore.

The loveliest faces are to be seen by moonlight, when one sees half with the eye and half with the fancy.

The life even of a just man is a round of petty frauds; that of a knave a series of greater. We degrade life by our follies and vices, and then complain that the unhappiness which is only their accompaniment is inherent in the constitution of things.