We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.

He half retrieves a defeat who yields to it gracefully.

In politics, merit is rewarded by the possessor being raised, like a target, to a position to be fired at.

There is no tyrant like custom, and no freedom where its edicts are not resisted.

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

Enthusiasm is the inspiration of everything great.

Winter is the night of vegetation.