Enthusiasm is the inspiration of everything great.

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

There is great beauty in going through life without anxiety or fear. Half our fears are baseless, and the other half discreditable.

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.

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

Justice, not the majority, should rule.

Pleasure and pain spring not so much from the nature of things, as from our manner of considering them. Pleasure, especially, is never an invariable effect of particular circumstances.