We must remember how apt man is to extremes--rushing from credulity and weakness to suspicion and distrust.

As the excitement of the game increases, prudence is sure to diminish.

More bounteous run rivers when the ice that locked their flow melts into their waters. And when fine natures relent, their kindness is swelled by the thaw.

What is human is immortal!

The first essential to success in the art you practice is respect for the art itself.

Men of strong affections are jealous of their own genius. They fear lest they should be loved for a quality, and not for themselves.

What ever our wandering our happiness will always be found within a narrow compass, and in the middle of the objects more immediately within our reach.