Nothing is so rash as fear; and the counsels of pusillanimity very rarely put off, whilst they are always sure to aggravate, the evils from which they would fly.
I know of nothing sublime which is not some modification of power.
He was not merely a chip off the old block, but the old block itself.
Facts are to the mind what food is to the body.
The wisdom of our ancestors.
It is in the relaxation of security; it is in the expansion of prosperity; it is in the hour of dilatation of the heart, and of its softening into festivity and pleasure, that the real character of men is discerned.