Doubt whom you will, but never yourself.

There is a German proverb which says that Take-it-Easy and Live-Long are brothers.

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.

In one important respect a man is fortunate in being poor. His responsibility to God is so much the less

A better principle than this, that "the majority shall rule," is this other, that justice shall rule. "Justice," says the code of Justinian, "is the constant and perpetual desire to render every man his due.

The past is the sepulchre of our dead emotions.