In the assurance of strength there is strength; and they are the weakest, however strong, who have no faith in themselves or their powers.

Loss of sincerity is loss of vital power.

Great warriors, like great earthquakes, are principally remembered for the mischief they have done.

Love's sweetest meanings are unspoken; the full heart knows no rhetoric of words.

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

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.

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